Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Given that 66% of all websites (and 77% of all requests ) are running HTTP/2, I will not discuss concatenation strategies for HTTP/1.1 We need to learn a little bit more about the rest of our setup before we can make a final decision about our concatenation strategy. ?️ What happens when we adjust our compression strategy?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website. Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website. Existing best practices and guidance, such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), give us a solid foundation for inclusive design and already incorporate many details that affect dyslexic readers. An Existing Design.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. I learned how to channel my often rebellious attitude to conventional design thinking to develop novel solutions to often everyday design problems.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Consider a synthetic test designed to evaluate an e-commerce shopping application. When designing synthetic tests, it’s worth using a combination of browser-based, mobile, and desktop tests to assess application performance. The following are three strategies worth considering. First is a test of the home screen.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Example: Swedish public transportation website. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. Vitaly Friedman. One of the many.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

This essentially means that your website should not only be mobile-friendly but it should also have a Responsive Web Design so that your target customers can access your products (or services) with ultra-ease on their hand-held devices. Why should you focus on Mobile Website Testing? online shopping, bill payments, etc.)

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. We get access to a CDN. code.jquery.com is served by StackPath , a CDN. Users might already have the file cached.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

CSS Container Queries: Use-Cases And Migration Strategies. CSS Container Queries: Use-Cases And Migration Strategies. However, responsive Web Design (RWD) is not limited to a page layout — the individual UI components usually have media queries that can change their style depending on the viewport dimensions. Adrian Bece.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. Nataliya Sambir.

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DZone

JULY 21, 2022

Using data to optimize your website's performance is an effective way to discover new test ideas and insights. This can help you increase your website's overall conversion rate, as well as boost your email subscriptions or product purchases. In this article, we'll discuss how to do just that.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Synthetic Monitoring is used to simulate defined customer behavior, for example when opening a website and clicking a certain button. Dynatrace provides two technologies for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM): Synthetic Monitoring and Real User Monitoring (RUM).

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Simform

AUGUST 10, 2020

What was the first question that popped up in your head when you decided to build an eCommerce website? Was it about the website design? Or were you thinking about the marketing strategy? The most significant concern is usually the eCommerce website cost. The post How Much Does an eCommerce Website Cost?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

End-to-end observability is an essential element of modern hybrid and multicloud strategies. Complimentary copies of the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for APM and Observability and the 2022 Gartner Critical Capabilities for APM and Observability report are available on the Dynatrace website. Gartner disclaimers.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. Cover design by Espen Brunborg.

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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. Ken Harker. 2021-09-20T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-09-20T14:12:33+00:00. Ad Scraping.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Session replay is an IT technology that creates anonymized video-like recordings of actions taken by users interacting with your website or mobile application. Replay software also captures web assets such as CSS so it can create accurate recordings even if your website changes. Develop a broad recording strategy.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In order to accomplish this, one of the key strategies many organizations utilize is an open source Kubernetes environment, which helps build, deliver, and scale containerized Cloud Native applications. Wait…isn’t Kubernetes specifically designed to automate tasks associated with deploying clustered services? Well, yes…to a degree.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. But with the benefits also come concerns about observability, and how to monitor and manage ever-expanding cloud software stacks.

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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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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A digital touchpoint may be a mobile application, a website, a SmartTV app, an ATM, an airport check-in kiosk or similar. Working on a customer win-back strategy is cost intensive and not always fruitful. Digital touchpoint outage: There is nothing worse than your well-designed digital touchpoint to simply not load, to be unavailable.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

You’ll find psychology heuristics just like tips for building a winning UX strategy , dive deep into user research and UX writing , and explore real-world examples — good and bad — from which you can learn to create experiences that truly matter. The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Component-based design, enabled and enforced by modern JavaScript frameworks, does not only provide great developer experiences and project ergonomics when used in a smart way, but it can also offer advantages for accessibility. website : 1 — Welcome to GOV.UK For example, let’s take the (abridged) headline tree from the GOV.UK

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DZone

MAY 12, 2023

Responsive website testing ensures that users have the best experience with your site, regardless of their device. The goal of testing responsive websites is to ensure a seamless experience across different digital devices. They use mobile-first design, progressive web apps, single-page applications, and more.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

That also means answering this other question: “How can one evaluate, manage and guarantee the quality of a website?” When delving into the concept of website quality assurance back in 2001, we started with a simple question: “What does quality mean for the users?”. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. More after jump!

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O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

But only one of the personal computer pioneers rooted his companys business strategy in something that would not change: the human desire to distinguish oneself from peers by the values that you express through your choices. Each of them, in their way, figured out something about how the world was changing.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

In this article, we’ll build a website (a tea shop!) To solve the second problem, I take an approach that can be summarized in four pieces: Design tokens. Let’s learn these techniques by applying them to a website project. Design Tokens. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Synthetic Monitoring is used to simulate defined customer behavior, for example when opening a website and clicking a certain button. Dynatrace provides two technologies for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM): Synthetic Monitoring and Real User Monitoring (RUM).

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As we expand offerings rapidly across the globe, our ideas and strategies around plans and offers are evolving as well. This re-design enabled us to reposition the SKU catalog as an extensible, scalable, and robust rule-based “self-service” platform. For example, the mobile plan launch in India and Southeast Asia was a huge success.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. While many of us, designers and developers, are likely to have a relatively new mobile phone in our pockets, a vast majority of our customers isn’t quite like us. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

JUNE 28, 2023

Developing a WordPress website is not enough, you should be able to reap all the benefits of having a powerful WordPress website. Most businesses fail to get such benefits as they are passive and don’t take additional steps to grow their businesses with WordPress websites. What is WordPress?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

How We Got Here Netflix started as a website that allowed members to manage their DVD queue. This website was later enhanced with the capability to stream content. Over time, devices increased in capability and functions that were once only accessible on the website became accessible through streaming devices.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

You will need a way of reaching the specific kind of client you would like to work with, and that needs a strategy that word of mouth cannot supply. Unfortunately, it is just as easy to get that strategy wrong, and doing so can prove a waste of time and money. That is also something that you can find when using a procurement website.

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

RTT is designed to replace Effective Connection Type (ECT) with higher resolution timing information. What follows is overall best-practice advice for designing with latency in mind. As a website owner, you have a degree of control over who you use as your authoritative provider. Where Does CrUX’s RTT Data Come From?

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Time is a crucial usability factor If you don't consider time a crucial usability factor, you're missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience I'm embarrassed to admit that, in my previous career as a usability tester, I spent years testing websites in lab conditions. It never crossed my mind to take rendering time into consideration.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A digital touchpoint may be a mobile application, a website, a smart TV, ATM, airport check-in kiosk, point-of-sale terminal, and so on. Working on a customer win-back strategy is cost-intensive and not always fruitful, which makes having an excellent DX more crucial than ever. What ruins a digital experience? This is the hard fail.

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