Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. Suzanne Scacca.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website? We explore how you can use web analytics or real user measurement data on your website to get insight into any imposter domains re-publishing your work. Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results. Ken Harker. Ad Scraping.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. The web app manifest is the core for making a website run as a stand-alone application in full-screen mode.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Smashing Magazine, like most publishers, makes use of web fonts and the below screenshot shows the difference between the initial render (with the fallback fonts), and the final render (with the web fonts): Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. there was a separate subdomain for a mobile website). Infrastructure Integration.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). To mitigate the performance issues, we had to add a lot of (unbudgeted) extra servers and had to aggressively cache pages on a reverse proxy. to the existing website.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

One of the biggest pains of working with statically generated websites is the incrementally slower builds as your app grows. For the end-user to actually benefit from this improvement there are cache invalidation strategies that must be considered. The cache is invalidated on a time basis. Átila Fassina.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

These terms are strategies for incrementally building websites. Normally, when you deploy a website that isn’t server-side or client-side rendered, it has to be compiled and built for the browser to natively load it (so, for example, your JSX is transpiled to vanilla JavaScript, your SCSS compiled to vanilla CSS, your templates into HTML).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis Matt Zeunert 2025-03-06T10:00:00+00:00 2025-03-06T14:50:25+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) in Core Web Vitals measures how quickly a website loads from a visitors perspective.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved. Caching Schemes.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Are all the caching headers set correctly? These are only a few questions to consider when having the goal of building a fast website. Let me share three tools that will help you spot performance issues and ship high-quality and fast websites. It’s a perfect companion to build a high-quality website. Stefan Judis.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

As of writing, they have been viewed over 29 trillion times across the web and it’s easy to understand why — the collection gives you access to over 900 beautiful fonts you can use on your website for free. Browser Caching. Another built-in optimization of Google Fonts is browser caching. — FAQ, Google Fonts.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Third-party Javascript accounts for a lot of bloat on websites, with analytics, chatbots, and embedded widgets being common contributors. I also became interested in this analysis of the COP26 website by Fershad Irani, which shows many things that could be improved to reduce the site’s (relatively large) carbon footprint. Two embeds.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

These days it is fairly uncommon to encounter a new website or web app that doesn’t rely on some framework, or a platform such as a CMS. In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. Dan Shappir. 2022-05-12T09:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-12T10:16:36+00:00. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We’ll be learning how to do this with GraphQL Features like Cache Update, Subscriptions, and Optimistic UI. website to download the latest version. Updating the cache directly using update function on the useMutation. Updating the cache directly using update function on the useMutation. If not, just go to the Node.js

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. This data is distinct from CrUX because it’s collected directly by the website owner by installing an analytics snippet on their website. So why use lab data at all? There’s no one right value.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Let’s assume all website images return this Server-Timing header structure. Examples of this might be, expecting that the HTML is fully static, such that we can cache it downstream in some deterministic manner — “partially dynamic” HTML bodies are much more likely to be handled incorrectly by caching logic.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I wanted to simulate a slow connection like those experienced by users in Uzbekistan, to see what kind of experience websites would give me. I installed ModHeader and set the ‘Save-Data’ header to let websites know I want to minimise my data usage. Let’s talk about caching. We’re going to check out Cache-Control.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you haven’t heard, INP is replacing the First Input Delay (FID) metric, something you can read all about here on Smashing Magazine as a guide to prepare for the change. We can now track INP scores on our website and break them down into specific components. But that’s not what I really want to talk about.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Being completely absorbed for a few weeks or months in designing a product interface or a website can be a thrill. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Color plays an essential role in making a product or website easy and intuitive to use. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Read More From The Series.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For some websites this works, but for others (such as Hack Club’s Scrapbook , a site built by @lachlanjc that I help maintain), the user expects the data to be kept up to date. The solution used in Scrapbook was to use the SWR library of React hooks to update the cached page from the server with client side data fetching.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This commitment involves prioritizing websites that offer not only relevant content but also an excellent user experience. LCP is particularly vital for landing pages , which are predominantly content and often the first touch-point a visitor has with a website. Here are some examples: Looker Studio filter.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

If your website is loading slowly, thats bad for user experience and can also cause your site to rank lower in Google. Theyve also added this data to the Chrome UX Report , allowing you to see what causes delays for real visitors on your website! But that depends on your specific website and wont always be the case.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This approach was touted to be better for fine-grained caching because each subresource could be cached individually and the full bundle didn’t need to be redownloaded if one of them changed. Your user has requested that you navigate to example.com (a website you’ve never visited before), and you’ve used DNS to resolve that to an IP.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

This way, the image loads faster, and your website will get a better LCP score. For the LCP score and its “Resource load time” subpart to be really optimal, you may also consider compressing your images using modern image formats , setting far-future cache expiry headers, or even using a CDN to reduce network distance. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% As PWAs work in browsers, they have web pages with URLs that work just like any other website (be it launched on a desktop or mobile device). The pages can be crawled, indexed, and ranked, as it happens with regular websites. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

The issue with that is that they’re always sent to your server, even if one of your users clicks on a GET request URL on someone else’s website and that GET request has side effects you or your user won’t like. The situation when it comes to mobile apps is completely different. Those aren’t accessible by JS and are sent only to your server.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

For example, you might share authentication in one Context, internationalization preferences in another, and website theme in another. Libraries like these handle cache locally, so whenever the state is already available they can leverage settings definition to either renew data or use from the local cache. error handler.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

For a busy page with lots of external resources (like perhaps a news website with loads of ads and trackers), there might be dozens of DNS lookups required per page. The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. You might think of a prefetch as being a bit like adding a file to the browser’s cache.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

” But these are teams and they’re spending a lot of time building websites or building internal tools or whatever it is they’re building and it takes a lot of effort to like, “Oh, we’re going to switch to a totally different context and use Jekyll or something else,” and you got to get people up to speed. Drew: Yeah.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

Using a component-based API makes most sense when the website is itself built using components, i.e. when the webpage is iteratively composed of components wrapping other components until, at the very top, we obtain a single component that represents the page. Native Client-Side Cache/Data Store.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Way back in the days when JavaScript was very much the poorer cousin to HTML and CSS, we didn’t need to think too much about how our scripts could be used as an attack vector for our websites. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. Conclusion.

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