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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

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A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. You might start by opening DevTools in your browser. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. The bitrate of your video sets the minimum network speed that your customers can use.

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. Media sites are particularly guilty of this. > Speed Index (Synthetic). Speed Index was an important metric when it first came out several years ago.

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Smashing Podcast Episode 40 With Mike Cavaliere: What Is Chakra UI For React?

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There’s accessibility, best practices, performance and one fourth one. It’s Chakra templates, I guess, is the open source solution to Chakra Pro or the open-source competitor. Next.js, it simplifies a lot of speed related issues and accessibility related issue. I’m not thinking right now.

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A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Media sites are particularly prone to this issue. It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast.

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Hybrid Lazy Loading: A Progressive Migration To Native Lazy Loading

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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. <picture> <source. media="(min-width: 1200px)". jpg 2x"> <source.

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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

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Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. You need to watch out for complex design elements, large media files, or slow browser rendering can delay the time it takes for the largest contentful element to render. Here’s how we do it at Bookaway. One of the key Next.js

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Smashing Podcast Episode 43 With Matthew Phillips: What Is Astro?

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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. Worked on that full-time open source for about three years I think. Transcript.

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