Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Why Optimizing Your Lighthouse Score Is Not Enough For A Fast Website Why Optimizing Your Lighthouse Score Is Not Enough For A Fast Website Geoff Graham 2024-11-05T10:00:00+00:00 2024-11-05T15:07:01+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear We’ve all had that moment. But again, it’s an incomplete picture.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. What is DNS?

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. So why use lab data at all?

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

The rise of mobile internet usage is evident across developed economies as well as developing ones (India, Bangladesh, etc.)[3]. that require internet connectivity. Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience. Speed and Accuracy.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. Early looks show one option being the ‘Badge of Shame’ showing on a splash screen as a slow website loads. Another displays a green loading bar for a website known to load quickly.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

Broken access controls Broken access controls are when access is unintentionally provided to pages or sections of a website that should be secured. Continuously monitor applications in runtime for known vulnerabilities and prioritize patching based on criticality: for example, adjacency to the internet and/or critical data.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2021

At the same time, cloud-native technologies and open-source software have introduced a new level of speed and complexity. Asset exposure – Is the vulnerability exposed to the public internet? For more information, visit our website to watch the demo or read our previous Application Security blog posts.

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MachMetrics

AUGUST 7, 2019

Yup – as if there weren’t a million other reasons why having an optimized site is important, you can now take pride in knowing that a fast website: saves energy, reduces economic disparity, increases happiness, and – in the most recent news – can prevent hate. Fast Websites Save Energy. Make your website fast.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. Progressive web applications (PWA) are still gathering popularity in 2020.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The second enhancement helps you manage expectations throughout your entire web application landscape, which includes not just public-facing websites but internal applications as well.

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KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

Dubai - UAE Dubai has grown significantly over the past decades, not just demographically but also in terms of internet penetration. With an internet penetration of almost 92% , the UAE is among the highest worldwide. According to Wikipedia, Greece has an average internet connection speed of just over 30 Mbps.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

When it comes to website redesigning, an outdated one is the last one you want but relative to some website that was designed by you in the past, it definitely would look better. Responsiveness Years ago people got the opportunity to access the internet through their PCs which had huge monitors.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

When it comes to website redesigning, an outdated one is the last one you want but relative to some website that was designed by you in the past, it definitely would look better. Responsiveness Years ago people got the opportunity to access the internet through their PCs which had huge monitors.

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Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

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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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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Choosing the correct programming language for web development is critical for producing outstanding websites. In this post, we’ll look at why web professionals use PHP for unique website creation. Web developers choose PHP for significant website development due to several reasons.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. In this third edition of our web design done well series, we’re honing in on the beating heart of many websites: content. Speaking of the transformative powers of the internet, how about an interactive story.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Adding video to your website immediately adds value, but also a new level of complexity to your web development. How do I account for different network speeds in different environments? This solution is fine when network speeds are fast, but it can be problematic when network speeds are not fast (or fluctuate).

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MachMetrics

MAY 14, 2020

When we gave a complete overview of the state of the web in 2020 we challenged our readers to compare their own website metrics to the multiple metric averages. In the above infographic, you’ll see that the average website size (or page weight) was nearing 2 MB for desktop sites, and 1.8 Compress and cache your website.

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The speed at which files download will be a function of bandwidth and round trip time. As a website owner, you have a degree of control over who you use as your authoritative provider. It can also provide genuine seamless connection migration as devices traverse the internet. The bad news? Avoid Incurring Latency Alright!

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MachMetrics

MAY 2, 2020

Our most recent article identified (and remedied) the 4 most common page speed testing mistakes we see website owners making, and it inspired us to do even more to help those who make mistake #2: Only testing from 1 location. This is obviously a situation where his website has to be performant around the globe. Mumbai, India.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Frontend frameworks let you hit the ground running when developing a new website. Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. These frameworks are typically leaner and less bloated too, which is a plus.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Around 600,000 websites have installed SSL certificates for security. These certificates are then activated on the company’s website which ensures that a secure connection is always set up between the web browser and the web server. Over 90 percent of the time, Chrome users prefer secure websites with SSL certificates.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Elon Musk’s need for speed. A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. This ultimately guides us to one conclusion: Speed is incredibly important. And thus, a fast website is more critical than ever.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

My home internet connection gives me somewhere around 3 Mbps down. Mbps download speed Jake Archibald mentioned his relative getting or the 0.8 Mbps download speed my in-laws get at their house. It seems blazingly fast compared to the 0.42 It’s not just the short shelf-life of devices that is impacted by poor performance.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 16, 2020

Among the reasons for this was the common myth that using SSL may slow down your website. Many were hesitant to sacrifice site speed for the added layer of security if they felt like they didn’t need it. so you’re not able to compare your site speed with and without SSL. appeared first on MachMetrics Speed Blog.

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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 more interesting thing, however, is the impact on the speed of our side. When we measure speed through Lighthouse, we get a speed index of 1.5

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For example, if we have a website with an index.html file and a style.css file, the browser would traditionally first request the index.html and once received/parsed, would then make another request for the style.css file. Neither preload or push should be used as a way to speed up the delivery of all your assets at once.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 14, 2024

On websites, CMPs handle cookie popups. Unless you've been abstaining from the internet for the past several years, you know consent managers well. A consent management platform (CMP) is a tool that helps organizations handle user consent for data collection and processing, following privacy rules like GDPR or CCPA.

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