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%. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

JavaScript, CSS, images, iframes, and other resources impact how quickly website loads, renders and becomes usable to the user. Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2019

in which he stated that the Google Chrome team are already developing the feature and intend to ship it in Chrome 75. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word). How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. (dm, Lazy Loading JavaScript Modules With ConditionerJS.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Regardless of how much the CSS codebase has been improved during the refactoring process and how much more maintainable and extendable it is, the final stylesheet needs to be optimized for the best possible performance and least possible file size. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

The Art Of Balancing Performance With Media Content. Even though rich media can promote user engagement, we need to balance the cost of delivering them with your website performance and business goals. Also, be sure to synthetically track Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWVs) as part of your toolkit with tools like LightHouse.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

As a result, website performance can suffer. Recommended reading : How To Use Heatmaps To Track Clicks On Your WordPress Website. If long website response times keep you up at night, this is a how-to for you. Everyone knows that if a website is slow, users will abandon it.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Addy Osmani has written a very detailed write-up on how to start performance budgeting , how to quantify the impact of new features and where to start when you are over budget. Image source ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Luckily, there are many great options that help you automate the collection of data and measure how your website performs over time according to these metrics. Note: based on research by Patrick Meenan and Andy Davies, HTTP/2 is effectively broken on many CDNs , so we shouldn’t be too optimistic about the performance boost there.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Defining The Environment Choosing a framework, baseline performance cost, Webpack, dependencies, CDN, front-end architecture, CSR, SSR, CSR + SSR, static rendering, prerendering, PRPL pattern. Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts.

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