Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I wanted to simulate a slow connection like those experienced by users in Uzbekistan, to see what kind of experience websites would give me. I installed ModHeader and set the ‘Save-Data’ header to let websites know I want to minimise my data usage. Notice the async keyword on the Google analytics script? Large preview ).

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] Predictably, they are over-represented in analytics and logs owing to wealth-related factors including superior network access and performance hysteresis."

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 17, 2019

Deferring our JavaScript hasn’t skewed any existing analytics and it certainly hasn’t delayed any advertising. [.] Since 2017, Safari prevents cross-site tracking by default, through a feature called Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP). This change alone nearly doubled our (un-throttled) Lighthouse performance score.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Having worked on browsers for more than a decade, I think it would be shocking if a browser team agreed to more than 10 MiB for a feature like this, especially if it won't dramatically speed up the majority of existing websites. These considerations put tremendous downward pressure on the prospective size budget for a cache.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

Using a component-based API makes most sense when the website is itself built using components, i.e. when the webpage is iteratively composed of components wrapping other components until, at the very top, we obtain a single component that represents the page. I have deployed the PoP API under [link] for demonstration purposes.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 13, 2019

Static : A photographer, designer, or you (the developer) create the images for the website. It's even worth looking into analytics to determine the most important devices and viewport sizes. — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) March 1, 2017. Let's dig into strategy for each of this types of images. Strategy for dynamic images.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. 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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. Image source ).

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