Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

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Engineering Google Website Mobile 135

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

According to Google, the best practice for a website’s speed is to keep it under 3 seconds load time. As we can see from the graph below, this best practice is far from being met for sites based in the United States. From there on out it will automatically compress your images upon upload.

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. Web developers should learn to use various testing tools such as Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Meet Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces , Steven Hoober’s brand-new guide on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric guidelines.

Media 77

Media Metrics Mobile Best Practices 77

Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

It is recommended to follow rules and best practices of building and sending emails. Dozens of cat memes on social media are obviously funny, but this is not always the type of PR activity you expected to be part of. Spell checkers and content testing tools are helpful for emails as well. Large preview ).

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Testing Servers Social Media Testing Tools 112

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

At a minimum, Optimal recommends that you have RUM, APM, synthetic, and load test tools set up, instrumented, and producing meaningful data. Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers. Are they providing meaningful, actionable data?

Website 74

Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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. Hat tip to Harry Roberts for this best practice.) Still, they're worth investigating if you have the resources and the need.

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 138

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Real User Monitoring ( RUM ) tools evaluate user interactions continuously and collect field data (e.g. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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Performance Cache Metrics Media 145