Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

It’s another type of real-user monitoring takes real traffic from your site and sends the information over for extremely accurate results. Plus, the data is aggregated over 28 days, which means it may not be not the freshest data. Alongside the CrUX report, we also have the RUM approach to data that we discussed earlier.

Speed 81

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 81

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

When I think of network speeds, I tend to rely on WebPageTest ’s traffic profiles: Traffic profiles to keep in mind on WebPageTest : ranging from Cable and DSL to 3G Slow and 2G. The table below is showing the total amount of traffic used. Large preview ). With HLS video, there is a JavaScript player, CSS, fonts, etc.

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Randon ASCII

AUGUST 26, 2018

It was great fun and it also served as a joyous celebration of the many ways to make commuting more fun than sitting alone in traffic. 425 Business Magazine article that includes coverage of Commute Challenge 2017. The write up and video are here. In September 2018 I did the same thing, with nineteen new methods.

Transportation 58

Transportation Media Traffic Availability 58

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Check out this video , where Mathias Biilmann talks about his realization that bringing the Smashing Magazine website over from WordPress to a static site using the JAMstack and Netlify hosting would make it load around 6 times faster! What larger websites are utilizing this? Do they get the same results? So is that the magic bullet?

Website 52

Website Speed Traffic Database 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. Google also doesn’t report CrUX data for some high-traffic pages because the visitors may not be logged in to their Google profile. From an SEO standpoint, the 28-day Google CrUX data is the gold standard.

Speed 97

Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

The origin value is an aggregate of the values of all the pages for that origin, computed as a weighted average based on page traffic. This means that an origin that has relatively little traffic, but sufficient to be included in the dataset, is counted equally to a very popular, high-traffic origin. Checking Top Sites.

Google 127

Google Performance Website Mobile 127

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

At the moment, around 35% of our mobile traffic is on iOS , so those users wouldn’t be getting the images faster, but encoding a large JPEG image only, or encoding both AVIF and JPEG files would unnecessarily bloat HTML which we wanted to avoid. This would be working only for the LCP author profile photos on the homepage and on article pages.

Mobile 140

Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Chrome users. Unfortunately, it isn’t quite right in our case.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s available for every website with enough traffic, but since it covers a 28-day rolling window, it takes a while for changes on your website to be reflected here. CrUX Data Google collects from Chrome users as part of the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) and uses it as a ranking signal.

Google 105

Google Monitoring Website Speed 105

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

At the end of the day, the system can monitor real-time situations and prevent traffic collisions and accidents. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. Modern cars are equipped with a lot of sensors and it’s possible for sensors to collect information, then use that information to track driving conditions.

Design 106

Design Entertainment Mobile Automotive 106

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

The tool analyzes edX’s rank, traffic sources, advertising, and audience interests. It’s a tool used internally at Fulcrum (where I work), but I thought it would be good to share it with the Smashing Magazine audience. Take SimilarWeb. SimilarWeb analytics for the edX platform ( Large preview ).

Education 83

Education Website Google Design 83

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Though not recommended for real-world scenarios (you will want to pre-render your traffic-heavy routes), it marks clearly the range of build-time performance improvement we can achieve with this approach. Our heaviest traffic pages are always ready for our users. Number of Pages. Number of Assets. Build time. Total deploy time.

Cache 129

Cache Website Strategy Traffic 129

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As any seasoned team will know, building the storefront capabilities is one thing, and running it at a production scale that is able to absorb large waves of traffic, driven by flash sales or breakout social campaigns, is a whole other and massive operational challenge. “It Commerce At Shopify Scale: Hydrogen Powered By Oxygen.

Cache 135

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 135

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively. Browsers perform their own caching operations, but if your site enjoys substantial traffic, you can optimize your client-side caching behavior using Django’s cache framework.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. If most of your visitors are in Europe, but a third-party service you are using is serving its resource content from the United States, those requests will likely have very slow load times as the traffic must cross an ocean each way.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Terabyte of wasted traffic. On the Fact Sheets page, we can save approx. 85% of images’ file sizes without a noticeable loss of image quality. With approx. 1,300,000 annual page views…this makes for 5.2 The difference is approx. EUR 1000–1650 in costs (on one single page!). Notably, this makes for 17.28

Strategy 123

Strategy Development Energy Website 123

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The ability to modify the headers of traffic that pass through your browser is a great tool to have. That was when I stumbled upon Requestly extension which gave me the feature to modify the X-frame-options header by matching the page URL and hence allowing me to override the X-frame-options header when debugging.

Testing 99

Testing Network Website Google 99

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. But this is an area of loading performance where, without a lot of work, you can get significant gains without a loss of content quality. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

This is particularly important for web applications that experience high traffic or demand, as Web Workers can help to ensure that the application can handle an increased load without impacting performance. Practical Applications Of Web Workers Let us explore some of the most common and useful applications of Web Workers.

Efficiency 106

Efficiency Code Strategy Network 106

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For sites with large traffic and a global reach, basic optimizations at build time are usually not enough. But this is an area of loading performance where, without a lot of work, you can get significant gains without a loss of content quality. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Well maintained SEO runs like a dream, and is better placed to adapt to the turbulence of algorithm updates. Communicate the value of SEO, and don’t do it by lecturing. Win, win, win.

Engineering 130

Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

GraphCMS has a generous free tier of 1 million API operations requests per month and 500 GB assets traffic. In this article, we’ll be using the free tier of 1 million API operations per month and 500 GB asset traffic.

Open Source 103

Open Source Website Mobile Code 103

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

This is applicable to pages that receive little to no traffic, so small sites without field data don’t need to be worried. A : Similar to how Search Console reports page experience data, we can employ techniques like grouping pages that are similar and compute scores based on that aggregation.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. However, developers with a deep understanding of the project may want to improve performance beyond that by doing some fine-tuning under the hood.

Media 69

Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

For example: An underpowered hosting plan fails to handle influxes of traffic, which leads to slower page speeds and a drop in conversion rates. If your website is for a growing business, but you don’t expect a lot of traffic to it (say, if it were a simple portfolio), cloud hosting would be a good choice. Dedicated Hosting.

Website 48

Website Servers Design Traffic 48

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for. Let’s assume that you’ve decided to develop a library and publish it to NPM. You want to keep it light — much lighter than competitors — so it has less impact on the resulting project’s end size.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. On Smashing Magazine, we could measure 19-32% improvement , too. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ). Set up "clean" and "customer" profiles for testing.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. On Smashing Magazine, we could measure 19-32% improvement , too. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ). Set up "clean" and "customer" profiles for testing.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

A website today receives a large chunk of its traffic from evergreen browsers — most of which have good support for ES6+, new JavaScript standards, new web platform APIs and CSS attributes. Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers. Shubham Kanodia. 2018-10-15T14:30:13+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

Code 58

Code Retail Mobile Website 58

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Doing this allowed us to set up the felt board in multiple places throughout the exhibit to test for location and how the kiosks might impede or enhance the flow of traffic, along with testing the actual conceptualized activity. Here are the additional details of this concept testing: Concept.

Design 98

Design Testing Education Processing 98

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

But does it really matter to get a refund or some credit when your website has lost all its traffic because of its non-existent performance? (ms, Uptime guarantee available: Despite their bad performance (the worst ever, by far, anywhere…), Arvix actually does have an official uptime guarantee of 99.9%. ms, ra, il).

Testing 49

Testing Website Servers Availability 49

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. This is exactly how Smashing Magazine handles its stylesheets. Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience.

Media 108

Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

From now on, we’re directing HTTP traffic to our React subfolder. For example, the default setting: DocumentRoot "/var/www/html". becomes something like: DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/react/dist".

Architecture 73

Architecture Virtualization Servers Technology 73

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

It accounts for 1.42% of global traffic as of June 2019, according to caniuse.com. I had hoped to try out Opera Mini as part of this experiment. Opera Mini is a mobile web browser which proxies web pages through Opera’s compression servers. Opera Mini claims to save up to 90% of data by doing some pretty intensive transcoding.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In practice, UDP is mostly used for live traffic that updates at a high rate and thus suffers little from packet loss because missing data is quickly outdated anyway (examples include live video conferencing and gaming).

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145