Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. But does it need to be available immediately ? There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all. Analytics is a good example.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

DRM-free, of course. Chapter 10 covers best practices in how the UIs of interactive elements are designed to attract the eye, afford action, be readable, and inspire confidence that they can be safely tapped. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). DRM-free, of course. DRM-free, of course.

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Mobile Design Best Practices Website 89

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this article, we will take a deeper dive into the various SRE principles and guidelines that a site reliability engineer practices in their role. Google was the first company to create, embrace, and put support behind the role of site reliability engineering. Monitoring. This goes back to the previous section about automation.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In 2021, Google relaunched CLS with a session window. By introducing a session window, Google reduced the impact of the SPA problem. Similar to LCP, Element Timing measures when a DOM element is rendered, and it's available in synthetic and RUM. The idea was to measure a burst of layout shifts within a 5s session window.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That user preference is available in two (hopefully soon to be three!) This is available behind a flag in Chrome, but not yet on by default while it finishes standardization. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Image Optimization , Addy Osmani’s brand new practical guide to optimizing and delivering high-quality images on the web.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The final prompt for a more aggressive optimization was the “Core Web Vitals” dashboard in the Google Search Console. We first thought that it could be related to the cookie banner adjustments we made recently, but it turned out it was a Google Search Update that seemed to be more aggressively penalizing us for a high CLS.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. However, as Google launched this initiative a couple of years ago, its had time to quietly observe users in these micro-moments as well as the websites that have most aptly responded to them. Suzanne Scacca.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

There are a ton of best practices for front-end developers to follow. Recommendations can come out of audits from consultants or from automated tools like Lighthouse (or SpeedCurve, of course). If you want to optimize your site, start by making as few requests as possible. Third parties. Long audible moan] We love to hate them.

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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. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. KB to 11.2

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Talent availability. It has a vast community that explains online courses, many available tutorials, articles, and three times more questions on Stack overflow. According to Google Trends, development companies were more interested in hiring React developers, followed by Vue over the past year. Google Careers. .

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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?

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This means that with Terraform, you can manage resources across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, using a single tool.‍A ‍This workflow not only streamlines processes but also ensures that any changes are in line with the organization's best practices and compliance standards.‍Advantages

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

At one point we had two conflicting high availability products from different teams, who weren’t cooperating. In the early 2000s, Sun was designing it’s next generation high end server, and to avoid reliability issues that had caused problems in previous systems, adopted Six Sigma to create quality best practices.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This means that with Terraform, you can manage resources across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, using a single tool.‍A Of course, the latter. Now, for the uninitiated, BSL is a “source-available” but not traditionally regarded as open-source.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. Googling for your own platform of choice with SRI or Sub Resource Integrity will likely point you in the right direction. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. It’s an initiative by Google to share unified guidance for quality signals that can be key to delivering a great user experience on the web. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. When investigating the impact on your site look at all available metrics for any improvement. Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway?

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Angular JS, released in 2010 by Google, is the best React Js alternative to build mobile , desktop, and web applications. is extensible by using the various available plugins. . With backbone.js, developers can get into a code mess if best practices aren’t followed. Of course, the answer is React!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

Let’s briefly look at the shortcomings of the many tactics available, starting with cold contacting potential clients. However, in practice, the results can be underwhelming. There is now so much content out there that to get somebody’s attention, let alone rank well on Google, is incredibly hard. Make it a video course instead.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Information on the how of performance has been available for awhile, but not until the last couple years have we really seen answers to the question of why. Google and Bing teamed up to present results from their respective experiments with page load time. Google’s results were perhaps even more startling. Conclusion.

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Google Chrome on Nokia 2. Event listeners alone, of course, are blazingly fast, leaving plenty of room in the frame budget for other activity. navigator.deviceMemory (available in Chrome and derived browsers) enables you to change the user experience for users on devices with little memory.

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

In that context, I’ll focus on C++ and try to: highlight what needs attention (what C++’s problem “is”), and how we can get there by building on solutions already underway; address some common misconceptions (what C++’s problem “isn’t”), including practical considerations of MSLs; and leave a call to action for programmers using all languages.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, we’ll discuss possible resolutions to these bugs as well. The “Changes” panel should be already available by default and next to the “Computed” tab. To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

I’m talking about Chakra UI, of course. There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. You just plug the theme provider in there and Chakra does the rest of the work and it just becomes available everywhere. That you, is available from the makers of Chakra, but as a commercial offering.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. Thousands of avatars available straight from Figma: UI Faces. All avatars are collected from various sources (they are always provided), and they can be filtered by age, gender and emotion, but of course you need to check the source and the license before actually using it. accessibility.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to UX Research shares tips and best practices from leading industry experts. Of course, we want to improve the overall user experience and user satisfaction, and we want to establish a lasting, positive relationship with our customers by keeping them happy and productive with our services.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Unethical practices at companies lead to the creation of technology that we all use but often neglect the influence of those intended to serve. We can best prepare our colleagues to avoid these situations through similar training and standards.” — Victor Yocco. Credit: Devin Harold. Large preview ). Are you storing it?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. It’s also a command-line utility available in most common computer systems, including Windows, Mac, Linux, and more. Free plans are available for both tools, and their paid subscription plans start at $10/month. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Additionally, even if we knew the available physical bandwidth, that wouldn’t mean we could use all of it ourselves. Several users are typically active on a network concurrently, each of whom need a fair share of the available bandwidth. More in-depth information is available. What Does It All Mean? As for TLS 1.3,

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” We can see what books and courses our customers are using, and for how long. Should it be?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It combines decades of deployment experience and best practices of TCP with some core new features. Over time, our attitude towards security on the Internet has, of course, changed to “ secure by default ”. While the first Google-specific versions of QUIC used a custom set-up for this, standardized QUIC uses the existing TLS 1.3

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Additional format vs quality comparisons are available for photography and illustrations. While there was no direct method to create or view AVIF files earlier, you can easily do so now with the open-source utilities available. ImageMagick and Paint.net also support AVIF while Photoshop community plugins for AVIF are also available.

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