Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. In this third edition of our web design done well series, we’re honing in on the beating heart of many websites: content. Why not web page adaptations?

Design 131

Design Internet Internet Mobile 131

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Given that TTFB is synchronous by nature, we can expect to see this pattern for any site that has opportunities. For example, processing of web application firewall (WAF) rules, detecting bots or other malicious traffic though security services, and growing in popularity, edge compute. In the case of a cache miss, this should be zero.)

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

As growth in traffic creates more load on the state government websites , the infrastructure supporting those sites – including everything from network connections to load balancers, web servers, application servers and databases – become s stressed. Recurring patterns and challenges . The sessions continue to mount. .

Website 211

Website Monitoring Retail Media 211

Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 12, 2023

The first thing that you will need to do is to finalize the right web development framework for your website. WordPress is a comprehensive content management system with thousands of free and paid themes and plugins to develop a full-fledged website or web app. It is the popular and standard markup language for web page development.

Development 52

Development Website Ecommerce Programming 52

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

It is vital, therefore, that engineers have a firm understanding of performance fundamentals, as well as a solid command of their tools. You’re out on the world wide web—you have no idea who is turning up to the site, what their context is, what hardware, software, or infrastructure they’re using, or anything.

Performance Testing 172

Performance Testing Testing Performance Strategy 172

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Web forms redesigned, with a few subtle adjustments — and without floating labels. The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. UX, Design.

Mobile 140

Mobile Design Cache Code 140

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the world of web development, those who become experts usually do so by learning from their predecessors. Reading and following the right web development blogs makes it much easier to get a solid education. That’s why we’ve compiled an exhaustive list of web development blogs and newsletters to make this process easier.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Testsigma

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In general, most websites or web apps run into errors because of a solitary reason: solid cross-browser testing isn’t performed. Apart from that, it’s vital to run your test on real-time devices as they retrieve reliable results. Picture source: StatCounter.

Testing 52

Testing Testing Tools Analytics Website 52

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

By using the same techniques programmatically (through GPT-3’s API rather than the web-based playground), nefarious entities could easily generate millions of replies, leveraging the power of language models like GPT-3 to manipulate the market. In the future, we expect to see “prompt engineering” as a new profession.

Social Media 138

Social Media Media Internet Internet 138

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will become a Core Web Vital on March 12th. Like all Core Web Vitals, INP has a set of thresholds: INP thresholds for Good, Needs Improvement, and Poor Many sites tend to be in the Needs Improvement or Poor categories. The trace for John Lewis shows similar patterns to the one for H&M.

Analytics 92

Analytics Processing Google Mobile 92

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report.

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns. These patterns range from simple tasks, like retrieving and transforming web objects, to scaling up for a large number of multimedia calls. Ultimately improving efficiency while minimizing errors.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A couple of years ago, my first few days on a new web performance project were always slow going. Historically, I’d maybe look at Google Analytics—or a RUM solution if the client had one already—but this is only useful for showing me particular outliers, and not necessarily any patterns across the whole project. See entry 6.

Speed 292

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO And Web Vitals In the realm of search engine optimization, performance plays a critical role. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. Everything in one single 528-pages book.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web. Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web. As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. Berwyn Powell. More after jump!

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

for Core Web Vitals that are measurable in synthetic and RUM). This example shows Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) from RUM for a page labeled 'Home' along with Image Size and the Lighthouse Performance score from a synthetic test with the same label: Correlate RUM data with synthetic diagnostics for Core Web Vitals.

Benchmarking 57

Benchmarking Best Practices Monitoring Traffic 57

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Like every other successful platform, the web operates on a finely tuned understanding of risk and trust , and deprecations are particularly explosive. [2] Vendors have a powerful incentive to "not break the web " Since cache sizes will be limited (more on that in a second), the predictable outcome will be slower library innovation.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? Some can easily be run on a laptop or even in a web browser.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As you may have guessed, since then we've been hard at work coming up with the right way to explore and compare your RUM datasets using a similar design pattern. Some of the many reasons you might want to do this include: Improve Core Web Vitals by identifying the tradeoffs between pages that have different layout and construction.

Traffic 54

Traffic Metrics Speed Mobile 54

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is one of three metrics of the Core Web Vitals. Since recently becoming a ranking factor, this major web performance KPI is still a new concept for many web developers. If you want to find out how to identify the LCP element on your web pages, check out this guide by Laurent Cazanove.

Media 104

Media Mobile Website Metrics 104

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. Web engineers frequently refer to browsers as "User Agents", a nod to their unique role as interpreters of developer intent that give users the final say over how the web is experienced. Does the app include its own web engine?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

To guarantee your apps or sites run as designed on multiple devices, it’s vital to test them before shipping them. In this post, we’ll discuss the best automation testing tools for the web and mobile. Best Automation Testing Tools for Web and Mobile. Picture credit: Sauce Labs. Signup for the free trial today.

Testing Tools 52

Testing Tools Mobile Testing Entertainment 52

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Web development and its success primarily depend on the framework that you use. Choosing the correct platform is vital no matter which stage of business you are at. The most popular framework for front-end web development is the JavaScript framework. Why JavaScript for Web Development? Key Features and Concepts: 1.

Development 52

Development Virtualization Open Source Architecture 52

Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Being aware of the patterns inherent to layered sociotechnical architectures can save you a lot of pain and politics in the long-term. We’ll see patterns to avoid and mitigate the coupling, and spot future hazards before they become major headaches. Very often, there will be dominant teams in an organisation.

Software Architecture 58

Software Architecture Architecture Government Design 58

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smart Interface Design Patterns , with Vitaly Friedman. From complex mega-dropdowns and tables to web forms, carousels and filters. Communicating effectively is vital. 10 Writing Tips for Web Designers. This contains a couple of my pet peeves. More after jump! Online, and live.

Energy 120

Energy Best Practices Design Availability 120

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS). As you consider Aurora vs. RDS, it’s vital to understand your specific needs and usage patterns to determine the most cost-effective option that will work for you. Want to learn more?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

In this article, I’m going to discuss some front-end patterns to reduce CLS. CLS is, in my opinion, the most interesting of the Core Web Vitals, in part because it’s something we’ve never really measured or optimized for before. It’s a very different beast to the other two Core Web Vitals. Anything above 0.25

Media 125

Media Metrics Website Google 125

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Images have been a key part of the web for decades. For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Vitaly Friedman.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Images have been a key part of the web for decades. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Meet our new book “Image Optimization” with everything you need to know to get images on the web right. Given how central it is to image optimization on the web, let’s catch up on what it can do.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

The Humble `<img>` Element And Core Web Vitals. The Humble `<img>` Element And Core Web Vitals. Given how central it is to image optimization on the web, let’s catch up on what it can do and how it can help improve user experience and the Core Web Vitals. Addy Osmani. Large preview ).

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns. Like on so many other websites, we use web fonts for our typography needs. We made good progress on “Core Web Vitals”. An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals ,” Barry Pollard, Smashing Magazine. Jump to online workshops ?. Font Loading.

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Impact of Web Performance , via Addy Osmani ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145