Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

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. This is why it’s a recommended best practice to set up alert triggers for your application.

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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. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. It wasn’t long before a sea of red “poor” and yellow “needs improvement” notices in our Google Search Console needed our attention. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study).

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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 18, 2021

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. So we decided to use Web Vitals Google Chrome extension since it can record CLS on a page while the user is interacting with it. This ends up becoming a major contributor to CLS.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

For example, Johan Isaksson covered one of those examples in his article , where he noticed a major scroll lag on Google Search Console. It’s important to keep up with the latest features and best practices, but also keep an eye out on browser support and use progressive enhancement. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine.

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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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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. These tools fall into several categories. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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. Chapter 9 describes ways we can consider likely problems when planning the design of our apps and websites. People Only Touch What They See. +.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

All popular browsers have an embedded accessible focus by default (you might have seen this bold blue frame around input fields, dropdowns, buttons, and links in Google Chrome). There are multiple shades of good design, and you can find yours on the overlap of best practices and your particular case. faded out).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

in which he stated that the Google Chrome team are already developing the feature and intend to ship it in Chrome 75. The best practice is to do this for the primary images — typically for the ones that will be displayed above the fold. <img Important Best Practices.

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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

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. seconds — the best number Smashing Magazine has ever seen since the Core Web Vitals initiative was launched.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

You could internally document them in a collaborative software such as Notion or Dynalist; or an online documentation like Google Docs or Dropbox Paper. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Image Optimization , Addy Osmani’s brand new practical guide to optimizing and delivering high-quality images on the web. More after jump!

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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. Eloïse Martin. 2023-01-16T18:00:00+00:00. 2023-01-16T22:03:27+00:00. Use Priority Hints.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

After all, content marketing: Should lead to good search engine rankings if well written and targeted; Educates clients about best practices; Demonstrates to readers your expertise; Builds a relationship with your followers at scale; Offers the ability to reach a large number of potential clients. On paper, this is a good move.

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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.

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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

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. Start by affinity mapping your industry and academic examples using sticky notes, google slides or miro/mural board. Credit: Devin Harold. Large preview ). User Personas.

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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. This is the Google Lighthouse score for how much elements shift or jump during page load. Google also provides a resource describing preloading fonts. Cumulative Layout Shift. Resources For Debugging CSS.

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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. It also reports on mobile usability, security, and best practices such as HTTPS.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. We are loading the following resources: Google Fonts Stylesheet. See the Pen Prioritizing stylesheets by Adrian Bece.

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. This is a whole set of reasons, such as vague email subject or unclear email copy, which can cause both not reading and not taking action. How can we address these challenges? Large preview ). But how do we know that they work?

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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.

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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

There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. A framework, but it feels better to introduce you to the stack in a hands-on manner because, every developer who’s got a lot of experience is good at going for documentation and Googling and using stack overflow. I’m not thinking right now.

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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

JUNE 8, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome who was working all around web performance for decades. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. Let’s figure it all out. About the Author. DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

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. In other cases, you’ll gain only a few dozens of milliseconds at best, even less if you’re already using a CDN (which you should be doing if you care about performance!).

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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.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

For a thorough guide on image optimization, we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani , an engineer manager working on Google Chrome and focusing around performance for decades. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. Let’s figure it all out. About the Author. His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

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. From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. Large preview ). Image Component.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Lighthouse-best practices audit now considers that AVIF image compression can bring significant improvements. AVIF contributors at Google have also reported some nice performance gains. Google created the WebP format in 2011 as an image format that would help to make the web faster. WebP Tooling And Support.

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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 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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