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Measuring Network Performance in Mobile Safari

CSS Wizardry

What we really want to do, alongside capturing good benchmark- and more permanent data with WebPageTest, is interact with and inspect a site slightly more realtime. If you want to know more about how best to use DevTools for performance testing, I’m running a workshop with Smashing Magazine real soon, and that will make you DevTools experts.

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How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics

Smashing Magazine

How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. Different products will have different benchmarks and two apps may perform differently against the same metrics, but still rank quite similarly to our subjective “good” and “bad” verdicts.

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Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. A few recommended readings (a.k.a.

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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

If you’d like to dive deeper into the performance of Android and iOS devices, you can check Geekbench Android Benchmarks for Android smartphones and tablets, and iOS Benchmarks for iPhones and iPads. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices.

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40+ Best Web Development Blogs of 2018

KeyCDN

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. Smashing Magazine Smashing Magazine is an established resource for those who want to master the front end.

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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

In FFMPEG, the principal quality/size benchmark is the Constant Rate Factor (CRF) compression, with values ranging from 0 (no compression) to 50 (high compression). However, typical frame rates on the web are 25–30, so the first thing we can do is to re-encode the video with a lower bitrate. Hiding Videos On the Mobile Web.

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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

All Things Distributed

There was an excellent first benchmarking report of the Cluster GPU Instances by the folks at Cycle Computing - " A Couple More Nails in the Coffin of the Private Compute Cluster " The Top500 supercomputer list. Physics and the limits of human perception - Why goalkeepers have trouble stopping long-range shots - Seed Magazine.

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