Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

A group of companies formed the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) with the goal of creating a modern, royalty-free video codec that would be widely adopted and supported by a plethora of devices. Added a unit tests framework based on Google Test. Added a continuous integration (CI) framework for Linux, Windows, and MacOs.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 10, 2023

A quick Google search will show that anxiety about an end to AI funding has continued through the year. Funding comes and goes, of course, and with the possibility of a media-driven recession, there’s always the possibility of a funding collapse. Nobody owns it; nobody controls it, though individuals control specific servers.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Another benefit is cost savings associated with server and data center setup and maintenance. There are several popular cloud-based platforms for web development and deployment, such as AWS , Azure , and Google Cloud Platform. Cloud-based development and deployment also enable collaboration and productivity.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

The upcoming prefers-reduced-data media query, which allows CSS to set different options depending on this setting. In the past, Chrome used to perform changes to the website by proxying requests via their servers (similar to how Opera Mini works), but doing that is usually frowned upon these days. How To Act Upon Save Data.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

Interaction Media Queries. This is where Interaction Media Features come in and allow us to fine-tune the usability of our components that users can interact with (inputs, offcanvas menus, dropdowns, modals, etc.) Table from the article 'A Guide To Hover And Pointer Media Queries' by Cristian Diaz. Large preview ).

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KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

It can be used to decouple your frontend from your backend and improve server efficiency. Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018. Major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all support serverless services. Google and Microsoft both plan to invest large sums in VR and AR in 2019.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s an initiative by Google to share unified guidance for quality signals that can be key to delivering a great user experience on the web. CWV is part of a set of page experience signals Google Search will be evaluating for ranking. From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

However, then the style will not be present when referencing the image directly (such as the image shared in social media via the <meta property="og:image" content="{image-url}"> tag), making the image devoid of personality. The images embedded in social media when sharing our content are of particular interest.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Plus, now that Google has made mobile-first indexing the default, you really can’t afford to let any performance optimizations fall by the wayside what with how difficult it can be to get your mobile site as speedy as your desktop. Or you can use ImageKit’s Media Library to store your files. Source: HTTP Archive ) ( Large preview ).

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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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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Whether answering questions on social media, helping someone with a proposal for a conference talk, or simply being welcoming and kind to newcomers, webperf folks are some of the most generous people you could ever hope to find. Learn what makes things slow and how browsers and networks work and how they talk to the servers.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2 Lighthouse.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Nor will I talk too much about the mechanics of how CLS is calculated: Google has some good documentation on that , and Jess Peck ’s The Almost-Complete Guide to Cumulative Layout Shift is an awesome deep dive into that too. I’m not going to talk too much about measuring CLS as I’ve covered that already in a previous article. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It was released in February 2019 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Content negotiation allows the server to serve different resource formats based on what is supported by the browser. CDN servers are often located closer to users than origin servers and can have a shorter round-trip times (RTT), improving network latency.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This goes way beyond basic optimizations such as color contrast and server response times. While a vast majority of the time is spent in just a few mobile apps, social media platforms provide a gateway to the web and your services — especially in education. It provides a comprehensive support of media queries (e.g.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For a company like O’Reilly Media, a related question comes into play. It may not be possible if you use a generative model configured as a chat server by itself. Google, which invented Transformers, knows better than anyone that Transformer-based models destroy metadata, unless you do a lot of special engineering.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

On May 8, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

— Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. But by adding the srcset and sizes attributes, we can specify more versions of the same image and media conditions so the browser can choose which one to display. Large preview ).

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Google Homepage — DOM. Asynchronous loading of CSS can be achieved in one remarkably clever line of HTML : <link rel="stylesheet" href="/path/to/my.css" media="print" onload="this.media='all'"> The devtools show a prettified version of the DOM. The JS-disabled version of Google search is just 102 KB, as opposed to 402 KB.

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MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web analytics such as click-through rates, bounce rates, website business transactions and sales, response times, web server usage, social media interaction, and many other key performance indicators will help ensure your site is optimal. Most hosts provide their own DNS servers, which is nice – but not always optimal.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Based on the company feedback, Google Trends, Google Auto-complete, including AdWords Keyword Planner you can develop a roster of key phrases and keywords which are commonly entered by users to find your website. This can be done through the company’s blog, social media optimization, guest posts, social bookmarking, etc.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Based on the company feedback, Google Trends, Google Auto-complete, including AdWords Keyword Planner you can develop a roster of key phrases and keywords which are commonly entered by users to find your website. This can be done through the company’s blog, social media optimization, guest posts, social bookmarking, etc.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

You may one day find yourself needing to make an Ionic Framework Android and iOS app that downloads media or in-app purchase content from a remote web server to the users device. Maybe you created an audio app that plays music from the cloud and you decided to cache upcoming songs in your playlist like Google Music does.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

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. Microsoft word documents, spreadsheets, Google docs always rear their heads up when working with content authors. A Picture’s Worth: How To Handle Media.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

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. Just a couple of years ago one online media for software developers sent a digest to its subscribers by listing them in a Cc field. Limit access to your sending servers and deployment processes.

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Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

Whether it’s social media, shopping, productivity or fitness, there’s a visible surge in the number of mobile apps and their users. It’s a cross-platform tool and comes with a GUI wrapper around the Appium server that lets us download it for pretty much every platform. It’s 2021 and we now have a mobile app for everything.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Google has been working for quite some time to speed up its network protocols in order to minimize website response times. Google is hopeful that QUIC can reduce connection costs towards zero RTTs. From Google’s QUIC FAQ : Why can’t you just evolve and improve TCP under SPDY? That is our goal.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One’s called Haunted, may have heard of that, some people might have, Matthew: and Fred, who’s the owner of Skypack, who started Skypack and worked on the Snowpack project, I knew him because he worked for Google on the Polymer project, which is a web component project. I think Jason Miller of Google came up with this terminology.

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Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

All the major cloud providers use Linux, your cell phone company is likely using Linux to deliver phone calls, it’s used by streaming services, social media companies, and so forth. Consider all the projects in Google’s graveyard, like Google Reader, Stadia, G+, and too many messaging apps to even try to recount.

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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.

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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. They act as a sort of liaison between the client and the server to put together the best page layout possible. What Are Client Hints? Why Use Client Hints?

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

The use of CSS media queries, along with a mix of flexible layouts and grids, enables this process. Improved Google Indexing Google prefers websites that have a responsive design layout and rely on CSS media queries for their functionality. Users no longer need to magnify or alter content according to their devices.

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Ecommerce Website Design Mobile 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. Graph of resource request chains on a typical news media website. You’ve thought of everything… or have you? Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. China’s firewall works both ways: people inside China cannot access restricted sites hosted in foreign countries, while a number of Chinese sites, apps, music and other media are not accessible outside China as well.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Google’s Web Vitals are a key group of metrics in web performance, so it makes sense to see where you rank using Google’s Lighthouse as well. These range from Google Fonts, analytics, and tracking, to ad servers, to social media widgets, and beyond. Capture Lighthouse Report.

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