Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Rest assured, all these definitions (and others) would be correct, provided the right context. Core Web Vitals are the subset of Web Vitals that Google has identified as having the greatest impact on the end-user experience. This helps taking action directly targeted to the issue instead of simply trusting general best practices.

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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? How can you start applying the stack in practice today?

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MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

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! Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices For Web Developers. – Aurel V.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

ScaleGrid offers managed DBaaS solutions to simplify scaling and managing Redis deployments with features such as dynamic scaling with minimal downtime, automated backups, and high availability, suitable for cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Adhering to these best practices will maximize your Redis clusters’ efficiency.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2024

Depending on who you ask, governance is “the practice” of defining policies, or it “helps ensure” things are built as expected, or it “promotes” availability, quality and security of things built, or it is the actual management of availability, quality and security. None of these definitions are correct, though.

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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

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. You’ll definitely notice a few strong patterns and a lot of overlap. Start by affinity mapping your industry and academic examples using sticky notes, google slides or miro/mural board.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Pat, who is currently a software engineer at Google, is the definition of humble. If you could wave a magic wand, what is the one performance best practice you'd apply that would have the most impact on user experience? You truly are the textbook definition of a performance hero. Thank you, Pat!

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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. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all. Bend Google Tag Manager To Your Will Or any tag manager, for that matter.

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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. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2

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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.

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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 Contentful Paint: Is It Happening?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Drew McLellan: He’s an engineer at Skypack and a major contributor to a new project called Astro, which aims to combine performance best practices with the developer experience improvements we see from component based approaches. I think Jason Miller of Google came up with this terminology. Transcript. Is that right?

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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. While the first Google-specific versions of QUIC used a custom set-up for this, standardized QUIC uses the existing TLS 1.3 IETF’s QUIC is technically very different from Google’s QUIC. itself directly. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Core Web Vital metrics definitions. SEO is key to our success.

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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

JULY 20, 2021

WordPress’ architecture often does not offer the possibilities we sometimes need when working on a website, especially when it comes to optimizing performance , one of the most important points when ranking our site in a search engine like Google and especially now that Web Vitals is up and running. Large preview ).

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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. Then, we can see that the color property for just p is crossed-out as an extra indicator that that rule definition is not applied. Google also provides a resource describing preloading fonts.

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VoltDB

APRIL 2, 2024

The value of ACID transactions is argued in the seminal Google F1 paper : The system must provide ACID transactions, and must always present applications with consistent and correct data. Many argue that this implies the transaction is on disk as well; most formal definitions aren’t specific.

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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.” However, growth always ends: nothing grows exponentially forever, not even Facebook and Google. Should it be?

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ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

One such challenge has been the emergence of marginal defect-driven faults that are difficult to address solely using best practices in manufacturing test and screening. Therefore, testing alone is unlikely to be the definitive solution to address these new faults. Marginal defects are some of the root causes for these faults.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Take a system trained to make predictions on a language (word or character) model – an example you’re probably familiar with is Google Smart Compose. While sanitization is always a best practice and should be applied at every opportunity, it is by no means a perfect defense. Wrapping up.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Since a SPA is by definition a full app shoved inside a single page, the CLS for a SPA would continue to grow for the lifetime of the app/page. In 2021, Google relaunched CLS with a session window. By introducing a session window, Google reduced the impact of the SPA problem.

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It is a suite of tools that help you identify the impact of specific code changes on you site not just performance-wise, but in terms of SEO, accessibility, offline support, and other best practices. Setting up the Lighthouse CI locally. Before you proceed, ensure you have Node.js Conclusion.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Open-source projects are described by many definitions that conclude on the same reasoning. A more technical definition of open-source projects is that they are released under a license in which the copyright owner allows the users to change, analyze and redistribute the code as they want. Testsigma just went open source!

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

Yet, this criticism of React isn’t completely unwarranted: React and ReactDOM total about 120 KiB of minified JavaScript, which definitely contributes to slow startup time. Google Chrome on Nokia 2. React is popular, popular enough that it receives its fair share of criticism. Contrast that experience with your high-end devices.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

It definitely is. We definitely have a lot more need for UI than marketing stuff. There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. I’ve definitely seen it. People are definitely enjoying it. Does it skew one way or the other or is it just generally useful whatever you’re building?

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google's Core Web Vitals , so it's been getting a lot of attention lately. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is another one of Google's Core Web vitals. The three metrics above – CLS, FID, and TBT – are all part of Google's Core Web Vitals. > Long Tasks (Synthetic and RUM).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

While a perfect understanding of these concepts is not needed for the rest of this post, having a common high-level definition would be good. One of the reasons Google saw very good 0-RTT results for QUIC was that it tested it on its already heavily optimized search page, where query responses are quite small. Congestion Control.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. Last time we talked, we posed this question of if modern best practices, the use of reactive frameworks and these sorts of things were actually bad for the progress of the web. Drew: You want it to remain unspoiled. Drew: Sure.

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Rigor

JANUARY 8, 2020

In his excellent article Start Performance Budgeting , Addy Osmani gives a very clear definition of a performance budget as “a limit for pages which the team is not allowed to exceed.” Mark notes that Steve* first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. Google’s Lighthouse. Addy Osmani.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Perhaps this is a best practice even for those using Save Data, as perhaps they’re unaware or had forgotten that they turned this setting on, and so are getting a different experience. The main one is that the definitions of the 4 types are all fixed, and based on quite old network data. There are a few downsides to ECT.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Note : as TCP generally under-utilizes network connection by a significant amount, Google has developed TCP Bottleneck Bandwidth and RRT ( BBR ), a relatively new TCP delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). From Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices by Addy Osmani (Slides 18, 19). In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers. Assets Optimizations.

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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 ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 29, 2024

If you're scrambling to optimize your site before Black Friday, you still have time to implement some or all of these best practices. Google Tag Manager) or A/B testing tool if you need to circumvent code changes. That's fantastic and definitely worth sharing. Use a tag manager (e.g., Use CrUX in a pinch.

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