Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

Engineering 132

Engineering Google Website Mobile 132

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2024

Our customers often tell us how much they appreciate the user-friendliness of the articles we create for them, so we recently decided to make them available to everyone (not just SpeedCurve users). You'll find the articles grouped into these topics. Introducing the Web Performance Guide !

Performance 98

Performance Speed Best Practices Metrics 98

Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

2020, a new game called FAU-G was released on the Google play store. Android’s official application store, the Google play store, hosts 2.87 This number is excluding the third-party hostings which are large in number and are not on the Google play store. million android applications on its platform. Avoid Comments.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Testing Mobile Games 52

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

Google 82

Google Latency Website Metrics 82

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? A Google machine-learning study I participated in a few years ago found that the total number of page elements was the single greatest predictor of conversions. You can dive deeper into image optimization and SEO tips in this article in Google Search Central.).

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Here’s another article about reducing JavaScript dependencies and the bundle size sent to the client. This article is about a couple of things that Bookaway faced and we (as a company in the traveling industry) managed to optimize our pages, so that the HTML we send is smaller. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients.

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Google Architecture Servers Speed 111

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

These authors are experts and many have a ton of additional articles and resources that you can check out. Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. and Google, they’ll do wonders for your website!

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Kubernetes Dashboard as a part of a comprehensive monitoring solution This article introduces the key building blocks to consider when designing your Kubernetes monitoring solution. Example: Your Kubernetes deployment uses virtual machines that run inside dynamically provisioned virtual machine image files (best practice or not).

Virtualization 165

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 165

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. The plugin supports copy and paste from Excel, Google sheet, Numbers and it also can sync with Google Sheets and remote JSON. Google Fonts Pairings for Figma. If you use Google Fonts, Google Font Pairings can come in handy, too. Also, take a look at the other.

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Google Design Code Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In this article, I’ll explain popular wording and formatting mistakes and will show more accessible and informative alternatives. What is hidden behind it: a page or file, an article or web form? However, you won’t need to take care of article links with aria-label if each title is a link itself. <h4>News</h4>

Website 142

Website Design Internet Internet 142

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Barry Pollard has written an excellent in-depth article about CLS. Apart from that, we check the Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report section to get an idea of any potential CLS issues in any of our pages. Note : Paul Irish has written an excellent article on this topic. How We Discovered CLS Issue In Our Product Page.

Website 108

Website Google Metrics Testing Tools 108

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. Can’t we just fold it into existing DevOps best practices? What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like?

DevOps 140

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 140

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to UX Research shares tips and best practices from leading industry experts. To ease your first steps into the world of typography (or help you take your skills to the next level) the Google Fonts team teamed up with typographic experts from around the world to create a library of typographic guides: Fonts Knowledge.

Airlines 131

Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 131

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In one of our previous articles , we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. Simplicity.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

After reading Louis Lazaris’ insightful article “ Those HTML Attributes You Never Use ”, I’ve asked myself ( and the community ) which properties and selectors are lesser-known or should be used more often. article h2 { padding: 2em; border-bottom: 2px solid currentColor; }.article__title We need to add an article number to each note.

Media 141

Media Tuning Design Website 141

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. In this first part of the article, we’ll start with the first five tips , and the rest will continue into the second part. We’re all worthy.

Design 128

Design Website Social Media Best Practices 128

Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

In this article, we will explain Redis sharding, explore its pros and cons, and how to apply it. Benefits of ScaleGrid ScaleGrid delivers comprehensive management for Redis hosting , allowing companies to leverage multiple cloud services such as AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, and Google Cloud Platform.

Scalability 130

Scalability Efficiency Java Database 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. Configuring WebPageTest to run a test measurement that simulates a failure of the Google Fonts third-party service.

Website 133

Website Design Network Testing 133

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2021

In this article, we’ll look at a React utility React.Children.toArray which lets us prepare the children prop for inspection and iteration, some of its shortcomings and how to overcome them — through a small open-source package, to keep our React code function the way it is deterministically supposed to behave, keeping performance intact.

Open Source 139

Open Source C++ Google Website 139

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

I have a handful of good links to articles about performance that are burning a hole in my bookmarks folder, and wanna drop them here to share. It’s one of those products that’s clearly a best-in-class tool for performance practitioners, yet had a prettttty gnarly design for a lot of years. This is way better.

Performance 69

Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 69

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

In this article, I will highlight a few core features that every headless CMS should provide. If you see authors turning to other authoring tools such as Google Docs for its commenting or suggestions capabilities, it may be a red flag as to what features you are missing. Content authors should love working in the back-office.

Cache 144

Cache Website Mobile Google 144

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

These statements and articles typically skip over some crucial technical details , are lacking in nuance, and usually are only partially correct. In this article series, I will discuss the new protocol, especially its performance features , with more nuance. We will discuss these features in more depth later in this article.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. Reviewing how to handle a lack of support for a feature is a bit beyond the scope of this article. If you’re unfamiliar, you may enjoy my article on practical uses of CSS functions. Large preview ).

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

<img src="turtle.jpg" alt="Lazy turtle" loading="lazy"> Addy Osmani wrote extensively about this topic in his article “ Native Image Lazy-Loading For The Web! ” in which he stated that the Google Chrome team are already developing the feature and intend to ship it in Chrome 75. Important Best Practices.

Website 104

Website Best Practices Media Open Source 104

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-24T22:02:26+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

Google 94

Google Analytics Traffic Metrics 94

Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

For those of you who are just starting in the headless world, these articles will help you understand the ins and outs behind it and why everyone is starting to migrate. A curated list of articles related to “Headless” → But Why Migrate To A Headless CMS? Headless CMS Explained In 5 Effective Minutes ”.

Website 143

Website Architecture Technology Technology 143

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

These metrics are used by Google to evaluate the quality of user experience. To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. Read this article to learn more about this topic and see when you might need to preload your LCP resource. Conclusion.

Media 108

Media Mobile Website Metrics 108

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). Google Lighthouse.

Network 108

Network Servers Cache Traffic 108

Rigor

JULY 11, 2019

Web Developer Programs Engineer at Google Rick Viscomi , the thresholds for fast/average/slow TTFB are 200 ms at the upper limit and 1000 ms at the lower limit. <200 ms “fast” TTFB is based on the server responsiveness best practice recommendation. Note: According to Sr. First Meaningful Paint: Is It Useful?

Ecommerce 87

Ecommerce Metrics Website Mobile 87

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Think about the number of times you visit a home page, click on an article, then go back to the home page to view another article? so reusing them from that home page visit is a good saving.

Cache 93

Cache Games Performance Website 93

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? A collection of practical articles on front-end website performance for front-end developers. Web Performance Collection. Building Progressive Apps. DOM Scripting.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. You can read about more advanced dead code elimination (aka tree shaking) in this post for Google by Jeremy Wagner. Do we have a carousel of images?

Website Performance 74

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

seconds or less, which is Google's recommendation for page experience and SEO. > Largest Contentful Paint (Synthetic and RUM) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals. > Cumulative Layout Shift (Synthetic and RUM) Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is another one of Google's Core Web Vitals.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. There's 31 great articles to explore in the calendar including Steve Souders's browser wishlist and Tim Kadlec's take on what it takes to create a performance culture. -. Control and branch the loading of CSS and JS.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Another interesting aspect of frameworks-helping-with-images is that some of it was born out of Google getting involved. Google calls it “Aurora” : For almost two years, we have worked with some of the most popular frameworks such as Next.js, Nuxt and Angular, working to improve web performance. Cool, right? I think so?

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