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Physics and the limits of human perception - Why goalkeepers have trouble stopping long-range shots - Seed Magazine. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Arts & Society. A great podcast interview. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

not to mention older browsers (Internet Explorer — hurry up and fade out would you!) This can be used to send this data back to Google Analytics by running the following script on your web pages: <script type="module"> import {getFCP, getLCP, getCLS, getTTFB, getFID} from '[link]. CrUX is Chrome only.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon(). However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I was working on an application that opened the provided webpage and then give the user an option to modify elements, add events, add analytics, and so on. It was very important to load the page in iframe , I was wandering around the internet to find a way to load it. Modifying Headers: How Can This Be Helpful?

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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. Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. of mobile sites and 94.1%

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. Notice the async keyword on the Google analytics script?

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Cache Mobile Google Network 99

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It’s an admin page that has an overview of all user activity, accounts, and analytics (admin page). Users can browse the Internet using slow and unreliable networks, so minification, optimization, and code-splitting of JavaScript files ensure that the user downloads the smallest file possible. A single private page. A restricted page.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

To specify, users can continue using those parts of the site that were cached if the Internet connection is unstable or when offline. The same may be said about offline mode. Progressive web apps are capable of working offline. Hence, this feature is also not a perk of only traditional apps.

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Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

In addition to fetching data, the component-based API can also post data, such as for creating a post or adding a comment, and execute any kind of operation, such as logging the user in or out, sending emails, logging, analytics, and so on. The implementation of this new feature will be described on an upcoming article. (rb,

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

That ensures that the video will start playback quickly and is much less likely to stall during playback — no matter the speed of your user’s internet connection. Last but not least, analytics. You also want to see processing analytics on how many videos have been fully encoded. Image credit: imgix ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Web has over 4 billion internet users and is nearing 2 billion websites. One example of this might be Fathom: it’s third-party analytics, but they have openly published the method they use to ensure user privacy. At the ripe old age of 25, nytimes.com is now older than some of the people who work building it.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Intermittent micro-services, unstable internet connections, or eventual consistency are all reasons to try again. Being analytical helps prevent or mitigate the same error from happening again. When facing an error, the first question should be, “can we recover?” Data fetching libraries such as SWR offer this functionality for free.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

For example, for an internet shop, it may be a page with a product list, product details page, shopping cart, checkout, and so on. It also allows the project to be loaded faster, which is pretty important in regards to the growing mobile share and new markets with slow connection speeds and fragmented internet coverage. It’s up to you!

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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. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Yet often, analytics alone doesn’t provide a complete picture.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. Of course, your data might show that your customers are not on these devices, but perhaps they simply don’t show up in your analytics because your service is inaccessible to them due to slow performance. Under consideration in Firefox.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa. Switch your analytics. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build?

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