Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. Why Bother?

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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. The following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers. Adaptive loading illustration by Google. The Application Works Offline As It Does Online.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Google search is really your best friend; and if it doesn’t help, then there are also these designer community channels which I mentioned earlier and which will come in handy when finding the solution to something very fast. When Typography Speaks Louder Than Words ,” by Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser (Smashing Magazine).

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

Recently, I was browsing a new addition to my library and was captivated by one magazine spread. A selection of covers from Otto Storch’s time as art director for McCall’s Magazine. Publishing can be a cut-throat business, and the magazines Storch worked on weren’t high-fashion. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the newest metric of the bunch and is set to formally be a ranking factor in Google search results beginning in March 2024. This is readily available in PageSpeed Insights and Google Search Console, not to mention DebugBear. And there’s a good reason that INP sits immediately below the First Input Delay (FID) in that chart.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? CrUX data is important because it is how web core vitals are measured, which, in turn, are a ranking factor for Google’s search results. From an SEO standpoint, the 28-day Google CrUX data is the gold standard.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Apart from car dashboards and tech magazine covers of the 80s that still seem (fairly) familiar, you’ll find gems like four-buttoned remote controls from the 40s or retro-futuristic concepts, among them a smartwatch from the 80s that is essentially a shrunken PC worn on the wrist. Image credit: Control Panel ). Eye candy to get lost in.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics, after all.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

An example in case is this same website, Smashing Magazine. That’s why all avatars, the arrow button, and many other elements are all tilted, at the same angle as the Smashing logo is: Tilted elements in Smashing Magazine ( Large preview ). What about images? In both accounts, Cloudinary can help us out.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. I’m a big fan of Smashing Magazine and am very interested in web performance and the Core Web Vitals. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees.

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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. You’ll also get monitoring alerts, so if there’s a web vitals regression, you’ll find out before it starts impacting Google search results. (yk)

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One of the great things about Google's Core Web Vitals is that they provide a standard way to measure our visitors’ experience. The screenshots from What Hifi (a UK audio-visual magazine) illustrate this problem. Core Web Vitals can answer questions like: When was the largest element displayed?

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

It also includes a handy CSS reference, a web development experiment playground, tutorials, blueprints to get started from and Collective - a digital design magazine that makes it easy to keep up with trends. Smashing Magazine Smashing Magazine is an established resource for those who want to master the front end.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 seconds too long.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Having set the price of copyrighted training data to $1B or thereabouts, other model developers will need to pay similar amounts to license their training data: Google, Microsoft (for whatever independently developed models they have), Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. Those companies can afford it.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

For example, the data is limited to Chrome users who are logged into their Google account, so it’s not completely representative of all users. The report, released in 2017, provides network data from sessions collected from real Chrome users. This is high-quality data, for sure, but it comes with its own set of limitations.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If you are just starting out wondering if someone might be re-publishing your web content, the easiest thing to do is a Google search. Copy a ten or twelve-word sentence from a page of interest on your site into the Google search bar, put it inside double-quotes, and click on Search. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine.

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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. If you see authors turning to other authoring tools such as Google Docs for its commenting or suggestions capabilities, it may be a red flag as to what features you are missing. Technical and sales support.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). With Google Search Console you can see exactly where your pages are (or aren’t) ranking for different keywords. Google Keyword Planner. Google Trends. Google Mobile-Friendly Test.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Google search ranking. Large preview ). The Wix Challenge. Heavier websites.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

For this, you can use such well-known tools as Semrush and SimilarWeb and reviews from Trustpilot , Google Play , and Apple’s App Store. For user feedback on edX, I went to Trustpilot (Google Play and the App Store are relevant only for analyzing mobile apps). edX analysis on Google PageSpeed ( Large preview ). Take SimilarWeb.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

With Core Web Vitals , Google has been pushing the experience factors on mobile further to the forefront. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices. Improving Search Engine Visibility. It’s not big news that search engines have been considering mobile friendliness as a part of search engine ranking. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Google Fonts. Google Sheets sync. The plugin supports copy and paste from Excel, Google sheet, Numbers and it also can sync with Google Sheets and remote JSON. Google Fonts Pairings for Figma. If you use Google Fonts, Google Font Pairings can come in handy, too. Also, take a look at the other.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. U&lc (Uppercase and lowercase) magazine by Herb Lubalin. Fact magazine by Herb Lubalin. NB : Smashing members have access to a beautifully designed PDF of Andy’s Inspired Design Decisions magazine and full code examples from this article. Read More From The Series.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Smaller HTML means less time for Google to download and process those long strings of text. Both for Google bots (SEO) and to actual clients. Google’s amount of time and resources to crawling a site is commonly called the site’s crawl budget.” — “ Advanced SEO ,” Google Search Central Documentation.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 16, 2019

Client hints were introduced by Google for Chrome, and other browsers have adopted (or in the process of adopting) them since the HTTP specification was released. According to tests conducted by Smashing Magazine , making your images responsive with hints requires 19-32 percent less data to be served than using preselected image breakpoints.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

For example, Johan Isaksson covered one of those examples in his article , where he noticed a major scroll lag on Google Search Console. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine. This property is somewhat difficult to demonstrate, as it is most useful in those very specific edge cases. CSS Custom Properties In The Cascade.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. SEO is key to our success. Bookaway site search. The reportWebVitals function.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

You can also look for your direct and indirect competitors on websites such as Crunchbase and Product Hunt , and you can search for them in the Google Play and the iOS App Store. Indirect competitors Evernote, Google Keep, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Microsoft OneNote and other traditional note-taking apps and pen-paper note-taking methods.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Apart from that, we check the Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report section to get an idea of any potential CLS issues in any of our pages. So we decided to use Web Vitals Google Chrome extension since it can record CLS on a page while the user is interacting with it.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

module.exports = { plugins: [ { resolve: `@pehaa/gatsby-theme-wp-child`, options: { wordPressUrl: process.env.GATSBY_WP_URL, fonts: { google: [{family: "Rubik"}], }, }, }, ], }. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. Therefore, it’s a good idea to think ahead and expose proper settings. comments, forms or search).

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Google Homepage — DOM. This isn’t useless JavaScript; Google has to have some in order to display suggestions as you type. For comparison, I disabled JavaScript and reloaded the page: The disabled JS version of Google search was only 102 KB and had just 5 network requests. Google Dev Docs. 402 KB transferred, 1.1

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