Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. That’s a lifetime in web seconds, particularly considering that this test is based on a desktop experience on a high-speed connection.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Many previous reading studies investigated the effect of typography on reading speed. But we know that faster speed does not always equate to better comprehension. In fact, better comprehension is often associated with slower reading speed.” — Sofie Beier (legibility expert), “ Bringing together science and typography ”.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away. So, here’s a scenario: I’m moving in a few months to a new place, and I’ll need a couple of new shelves to hold books and magazines. Web scrapers can gather content extremely fast, but you should avoid going at top speed.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

You can also disable the Back/Forward Cache in Chrome at chrome://flags/#back-forward-cache if you want to experiment more, but the above steps should hopefully be a sufficient enough test to give a rough feel for the potential speed gains. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

But first, let’s talk about the importance of speed improvement. Why Is Speed Improvement Necessary To Our SEO Efforts? One of the best technical ways to improve the crawl budget is to help Google do more in less time : Q : “Does site speed affect my crawl budget? How about errors?”

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This component incorporates several image-related best practices. Recently, we have implemented responsive image preload and started serving images in WebP format which helped us to reduce 75% of image payload, reduce LCP by 62%, and Speed Index by 24%. This ends up becoming a major contributor to CLS.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

That’s practically an eternity when talking about page speed performance. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. WebPageTest waterfall timeline report. In case you’re wondering, 2.4 seconds is not great. Here’s how we are approaching it.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

Lazy loading is a way to improve the performance of a website or web application by maximizing the rendering speed of the above-the-fold images and iframes (and sometimes videos) by deferring the loading of below-the-fold content. Important Best Practices. Native Versus JavaScript-Driven Lazy Loading.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When testing new components, it’s already best practice to fork or branch the code , and this new branch may be published into a test environment within UXPin. Talk about speeding up the process and reducing human error in design ! Your team may test it or you may grant access to a small group of beta testers in your company.

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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. For this reason, best practice advice is to load CSS resources as early as you can in the page load , so the browser has all the information to render the page as soon as possible.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Luis Ouriach published a helpful best-practice guide for structuring your frames in Figma — with consistent naming conventions, descriptive components, and consistent spacing. Google Sheet is a handy plugin that speeds up the import of your Google Sheets to Figma. Speed Up Workflow With Figma Plugins. Large preview ).

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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

JANUARY 16, 2023

To address this problem, I’ll provide an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image. The images used in the article’s Codepen demonstrations will be integrated with TwicPics to save time in their creation and speed up the optimization of the LCP metric.

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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. Coding From Scratch written by Alex Husar. Transcript. So we built our marketing site in React too.”

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. The shorter the TTFB, the better the perceived speed of the site from the user’s perspective. It also reports on mobile usability, security, and best practices such as HTTPS. LCP seconds over time.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Always offering services that will allow us to optimize our assets and the speed of response with which they are served to us. Connecting these two things, a Headless CMS and a static site builder are considered as a set of web development best practices focused on providing the highest performance, security and lowest cost.

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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. Speaking of layers — speeding through the spec process is another new feature that was designed specifically to assist in orchestrating the cascade and alleviating clashes.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In this article, we’re going to cover code-splitting best practices and showcase some examples using React, so we load the minimum JavaScript necessary to render a page and dynamically load sizeable non-critical bundles. How quickly the file is downloaded depends on the connection speed and the size of the file itself.

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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. Again, a good place to read more about this is the always-great MDN docs for Subresource Integrity.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

As you can see in this example, Globus Journeys answers many of those micro-moments right within the navigation: tips on touring (Touring 101), tips on travel best practices (Travel Tips), deals available for travel (Deals & Offers), etc. Speed in getting to and through checkout is another.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. Next.js, it simplifies a lot of speed related issues and accessibility related issue. It’s quite often that you’ll see high scores and everything. I just tweeted today about how the book’s homepage has three out of the four Lighthouse scores. Mike: Next.js

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. Degree of compression, image quality, and decoding speed are key factors to be considered when comparing image performance for the web. Lighthouse-best practices audit now considers that AVIF image compression can bring significant improvements.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

It also allows the project to be loaded faster, which is pretty important in regards to the growing mobile share and new markets with slow connection speeds and fragmented internet coverage. Let’s write a script that allows us to measure performance, a11y, best practices, and provide us with an SEO score. It’s up to you!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. Did You Know?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

We’ll develop the card component in isolation and use the agreed standards and best practices. Using automated visual regression testing tools like Percy or Chromatic on a Pull Request level can speed up testing, allow developers to address regressions quickly and early, and make sure that the bugs don’t end up on the live site.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. Promoting best practices and providing you with practical tips to master your daily coding and design challenges has always been (and will be) at the core of everything we do at Smashing. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. Get the eBook.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

His team focuses on speed , helping keep the web fast. Promoting best practices and providing you with practical tips to master your daily coding and design challenges has always been (and will be) at the core of everything we do at Smashing. Addy Osmani is an engineering manager working on Google Chrome. Get the eBook.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. The sizes attribute specifies a set of conditions, such as screen widths, and what image size is best to select when those conditions are met. now includes an Image component with several of the above best practices baked in. Large preview ). Image Component.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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