Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

Recently, I was browsing a new addition to my library and was captivated by one magazine spread. A selection of covers from Otto Storch’s time as art director for McCall’s Magazine. Publishing can be a cut-throat business, and the magazines Storch worked on weren’t high-fashion. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

You’ve fired up Google Lighthouse from Chrome’s DevTools because everyone and their uncle uses it to evaluate performance. Except, don’t — at least not using Google Lighthouse as your sole proof. Google Lighthouse is merely one tool in a complete performance toolkit. That’s what we’re aiming for, after all!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Apart from car dashboards and tech magazine covers of the 80s that still seem (fairly) familiar, you’ll find gems like four-buttoned remote controls from the 40s or retro-futuristic concepts, among them a smartwatch from the 80s that is essentially a shrunken PC worn on the wrist. Image credit: Control Panel ). and the GSAP Library.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. 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. Technical and sales support.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One of the great things about Google's Core Web Vitals is that they provide a standard way to measure our visitors’ experience. The screenshots from What Hifi (a UK audio-visual magazine) illustrate this problem. Only available in Chromium-based browsers. How much did the content move around as it loads?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 seconds too long.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. Thousands of avatars available straight from Figma: UI Faces. The plugin has a large library of (literally) millions of logos available at your fingertips. The plugin supports copy and paste from Excel, Google sheet, Numbers and it also can sync with Google Sheets and remote JSON.

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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). Work out what your priorities are, how you can measure progress, and the limitations of the available data. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It may even be something you do regularly with Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, where testing is freely available and produces a very attractive-looking report. Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? Can’t be perfect every time! So why use lab data at all?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

An example in case is this same website, Smashing Magazine. That’s why all avatars, the arrow button, and many other elements are all tilted, at the same angle as the Smashing logo is: Tilted elements in Smashing Magazine ( Large preview ). What about images? In both accounts, Cloudinary can help us out.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. The fact that INP is already available in performance reports means we have an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with it today, in advance of its release. The results aren’t even close!

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

It also includes a handy CSS reference, a web development experiment playground, tutorials, blueprints to get started from and Collective - a digital design magazine that makes it easy to keep up with trends. Frontend Focus Frontend Focus’s issues are available from their site or as subscription emails. Visit website 2.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. In pre-war American advertising agencies, the job of a layout artist was simply to place headlines, copy, and images into available space, but that changed after WW2 with an influx of immigrant designers from Europe. U&lc (Uppercase and lowercase) magazine by Herb Lubalin.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Google search ranking. Large preview ). The Wix Challenge. Heavier websites.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. Copy a ten or twelve-word sentence from a page of interest on your site into the Google search bar, put it inside double-quotes, and click on Search. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

For this, you can use such well-known tools as Semrush and SimilarWeb and reviews from Trustpilot , Google Play , and Apple’s App Store. For user feedback on edX, I went to Trustpilot (Google Play and the App Store are relevant only for analyzing mobile apps). edX analysis on Google PageSpeed ( Large preview ). Take SimilarWeb.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

Some answers from the community surprised me, as they’ve included some very useful and often-requested CSS features which were made available in the past year or two. Please note that available features depend on the font itself, and some features might not be supported. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine. all Property.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. Google’s amount of time and resources to crawling a site is commonly called the site’s crawl budget.” — “ Advanced SEO ,” Google Search Central Documentation.

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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. Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. But does it need to be available immediately ? Analytics is a good example.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you haven’t heard, INP is replacing the First Input Delay (FID) metric, something you can read all about here on Smashing Magazine as a guide to prepare for the change. There’s network timing, navigation timing, resource timing, and plenty of custom reporting features available on top of the Core Web Vitals we’ve looked at.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Both are available via the official WordPress plugins repository and do not require any configuration. This setup assumes that the themes are available via some npm repository, which means we’ve already published them. These will be available within the config file on the child theme’s level. What Are Gatsby Themes?

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Is the entire corpus available (I doubt it), or just certain random articles? Having set the price of copyrighted training data to $1B or thereabouts, other model developers will need to pay similar amounts to license their training data: Google, Microsoft (for whatever independently developed models they have), Facebook, Amazon, and Apple.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Google Homepage — DOM. This isn’t useless JavaScript; Google has to have some in order to display suggestions as you type. For comparison, I disabled JavaScript and reloaded the page: The disabled JS version of Google search was only 102 KB and had just 5 network requests. Google Dev Docs. 402 KB transferred, 1.1

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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. In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 16, 2019

Client hints were introduced by Google for Chrome, and other browsers have adopted (or in the process of adopting) them since the HTTP specification was released. According to tests conducted by Smashing Magazine , making your images responsive with hints requires 19-32 percent less data to be served than using preselected image breakpoints.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The “Changes” panel should be already available by default and next to the “Computed” tab. Since it’s not subtracting the margin , it experiences overflow due to 100vw being 16px wider than the available space between the body’s margins. Currently, the fix is to update to 100% if you can.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Even with all of the available tools at my disposal, I still find myself reaching for several of them. For example, the data is limited to Chrome users who are logged into their Google account, so it’s not completely representative of all users. Lighthouse results.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Surveying the existing landscape of available developer tools and runtimes, we felt that there is a gap. From connecting back-office operations to front-of-the-house A/B testing and dynamic personalization for each customer, the shared foundation is fast server-side rendering powered by fast storefront data access.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights. Configuring WebPageTest to run a test measurement that simulates a failure of the Google Fonts third-party service. Large preview ). Large preview ). The resource requests for these fonts (.woff

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

While the first Google-specific versions of QUIC used a custom set-up for this, standardized QUIC uses the existing TLS 1.3 ISPs and intermediate networks might block it because metrics such as average delays and packet loss percentages are no longer easily available, making it more difficult to detect and diagnose problems.

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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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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Similarly from cross-site navigation — think Google search results or the like and then clicking back. seconds — the best number Smashing Magazine has ever seen since the Core Web Vitals initiative was launched. When investigating the impact on your site look at all available metrics for any improvement.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

This image shows all the readily available actions: Out of the box actions in Buddy. All this process sounds like a bit too much, right? Introduction To Continuous Integration, Delivery, And Deployment. Managing and automating software deployment involves both tools and processes. Large preview ). Creating A Pipeline. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This is only available as a Python module. Puppeteer is a Node library developed by Google which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. the New-Header. A response interceptor should accept two arguments, one for the originating request and one for the response. Limitations.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

Many articles and books are available for you to learn more about this design process. You can also look for your direct and indirect competitors on websites such as Crunchbase and Product Hunt , and you can search for them in the Google Play and the iOS App Store. You can perform UX research at any stage. Large preview ).

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