Smashing Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

With Gatsby now providing Serverless Functions on Gatsby Cloud (and Netlify also providing support via @netlify/plugin-gatsby ), the framework that was once misunderstood to be “just for blogs” is now more than ever, (in my opinion) the most exciting technology provider in the Jamstack space. Not very exciting, ay? and set isLoading to false.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake worked at the BBC for four years, writing low-level JavaScript that catered to their strict accessibility, performance and browser support requirements. There, he authored and maintained the corporation’s Standards and Guidelines on JavaScript , which still has his mark to this day. Applications. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to content websites, Wix also supports e-commerce, blogs, forums, bookings and events, and membership and authentication. To support all this, we have over 5,000 employees spread around the globe. Improving performance requires a significant amount of resources and effort. Maintaining development velocity.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

This is a very basic site made with simple HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This is the process of turning HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a fully fleshed out, interactive website. We’ll run any inline JavaScript as we see it, or download it if it’s an external asset as we go line-by-line parsing the HTML.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Server-Timing is uniquely powerful, because it is the only HTTP Response header that supports setting free-form values for a specific resource and makes them accessible from a JavaScript Browser API separate from the Request/Response references themselves. Setting Server-Timing.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

And while React’s tagline is “a JavaScript library for building user interfaces” rather than a framework, I think that ship has sailed: most React developers consider it to be a framework and use it as such. In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. Once a week.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

I’ll cover the following: How to improve the LCP Resource load time subpart with the help of the <img> tag and a focus on proper LCP image sizing. How to improve LCP Resource load delay subpart. Improve LCP Resource Load Time With The Help Of The <img> Tag. Improve LCP Resource Load Delay Subpart.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. Any resource (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, image, font, etc.) that you host and serve from your own domain(s) is called a “first-party” resource.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

But where Zopfli leveraged existing compression techniques, Brotli was written from the ground-up and squarely focused on text compression to benefit static web assets, like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and even web fonts. I had Brotli in mind for the content optimization part of the service for compressible resources.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

They offer a wide variety of customization options to further control how code is being optimized and which browsers are supported. Depending on the codebase and supported browsers set in the config, code with deprecated vendor prefixes can also get removed. /* Before - optimized code with formatting */.container

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Decoding and rendering images is very resource-intensive , and this grows exponentially as the images get bigger. Small JavaScript files, depending on what they are doing, can take a long time to execute and the same potential pitfalls as images will apply. What was the effect of this change on carbon emissions? grams after.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

The factors that impact on LCP: Slow origin server response times Render-blocking JavaScript and CSS on page load Page Resource load times User side page rendering. You can make beautiful-looking websites with the supports of millions of themes & plugins available. Optimize JavaScript and CSS.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Your first option is to use its native CDN - Amazon CloudFront, as it seamlessly integrates with all of your other AWS Services that you're using to build your service.‍For ‍You might keep introducing CDN-level features specific to CloudFront that significantly improve your application's performance. What is vendor lock-in?‍Think

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

The possibility of extending and manipulating the DOM that the library offers is great, and we also have many plugins to add behavior to our pages in case we need to do tasks that aren’t supported by the jQuery main library. Some of the reasons why jQuery is so popular are: It supports DOM manipulation. It provides CSS manipulation.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

If you’ve ever used a CDN-hosted version of a JavaScript library, you may have noticed a strange looking integrity attribute on the script tag. In this article, we’ll take a look at what SRI is, how it can help protect you, and how you can start using it in your own projects, not just for files hosted on CDNs. Drew McLellan.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

You might keep introducing CDN-level features specific to CloudFront that significantly improve your application's performance. Not only that, but it's essential to understand that each CDN uses its proprietary native runtimes and components to function. What is vendor lock-in?‍Think This is known as "Vendor Lock-in."‍Vendor

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Some of these tips may not affect the amount of data transferred directly , but do generally involve deferring the download of less important resources, which on slow connections may mean the resources are never downloaded and data is saved. MB resources, 24 requests. You can see there is a LOT of inline JavaScript here.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The average web page size has been increasing steadily for years and is currently just over 2MB (according to HTTP Archive ), and much of that increase can be attributed to Javascript. Third-party Javascript accounts for a lot of bloat on websites, with analytics, chatbots, and embedded widgets being common contributors. Lazyloading.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Read more about static site generators as well as how to host a static site with a CDN. Minify JavaScript and CSS Google PageSpeed Insights is now telling us that we need to minify our JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. Under JavaScript Options uncheck “Force JavaScript in ?” location ~*.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

50 Resources And Tools To Turbocharge Your Copywriting Skills written by Freya Giles. Drew: Of course, one of the big things people worry about with these JavaScript heavy frameworks, React and all the others, is the weight of the JavaScript. So Astro does not add any JavaScripts by default. Optimizing Next.js Transcript.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Ultimately all our data will be delivered through CDN networks. A content delivery network (CDN), is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. As well as supporting cross-platform applications, it also allows us to maintain brand consistency. Let’s get started! Creating A Space In Storyblok.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

If a resource is in that bundle — and enough users have the identical bundle — using a resource from it on both alice.com and bob.com won't leak information about the user's browsing history. A browser couldn't use resources from it, lest missing resources (leaked through a timing side channel ) uniquely identify the user.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

First, we’ll discuss which changes you need to make to your pages and resources to optimally use the new protocols (that’s the easy part). Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Changes To Pages And Resources. Single Connection.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Markdown support. While it looks unassuming, it laid the foundation for the web we have today. Page Metadata.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2021

To follow along in this article, you should have: an understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; at least a little experience with Vue.js ; Node.js In summary, Quasar offers support for many build modes, including: single-page applications; progressive web applications; server-side rendering; mobile apps (iOS and Android), using Cordova or ?apacitor;

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This translates into a budget of ~130-170KB of critical-path resources, depending on composition — the more JS you include, the smaller the bundle must be. Teams with this support are free to set performance budgets, do “bakeoffs” between competing approaches, and invest in performance infrastructure.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

One of Lambda’s big drawbacks, until last week, was that downstream resources could be overwhelmed by the massive and uncontrollable horizontal scaling that AWS provide in Lambda. Tooling has been updated to support this new feature too (see below.) Like Lambda, API Gateway now supports canary deployment / traffic shaping.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

It details how and if you should change your web pages and resources as well. This in turn affects how fast a page’s resources can be downloaded. This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP. Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( coming up soon! ). A Primer on Speed.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

With a headless CMS, you can make changes to your frontend without having any impact on the back-end infrastructure, hence saving yourself time and resources, which makes it much better. A CMS that gives complete freedom to build a website or a branded blog with full SEO and supports any tech stack. Types Of Headless CMS. ButterCMS.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

There you will have a lot of extra JavaScript and back-end logic to calculate the prices, plus several service calls to get the appropriate shipping provider and price estimates based on the country being shipped to. Let’s talk about resources, and not just CSS or JavaScript (which we will cover later). Legacy Support.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

It’s just now it’s not a side project anymore, it’s got the support of a company dead-focused on helping developers. Here’s the real news though: there’s a full-on scalable API now. Linux; Android 6.0.1; Moto G (4)) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.85 Mobile Safari/537.36 Mobile Safari/537.36

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

We want to be able to create our displacement map in a way that allows us to alter them with JavaScript and CSS dynamically and we want to be able to animate them. JavaScript can dynamically alter an SVG filter. Here we use JavaScript to create a magnifying glass that follows the users mouse.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. This approach works well for serving any modern image format not supported in all browsers. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. It looked quite healthy at the start. Large preview ).

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

You won’t know, for example, whether your 75th-percentile value for Largest contentful paint (LCP) is the result of some users experiencing slow resources because of a CDN issue or a poorly performing service in your back end. Long tasks is the total time of all long JavaScript tasks (over 50 ms) added together. information.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Need resources to get started?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Images are the most popular resource type on the web and are often the largest. WebP is more widely supported and may be used for rendering regular images where advanced features like wide color gamut or text overlays are not required. Animation support may be required for some images on the web (e.g., Addy Osmani.

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