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. Design Optimizations.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features. This is why performance is crucial when building websites. It’s a known fact that JavaScript is one of the main culprits behind website bloat. The JavaScript Tax.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is why Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals specify First Input Delay (FID) and Total Blocking Time (TBT) metrics to measure site interactivity and input responsiveness. Website performance is not consistent across devices. This estimation doesn’t include parsing and execution times which also affects website performance.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. He has also hosted the NY Web Performance Meetup, which boasts over 5,000 members, since 2009. He writes about Progressive Web Apps on Medium as well as on his own website. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Performance budget, as used on performance monitoring tools, such as SpeedCurve. However, having a performance budget as a standalone metric might not be of much help. That’s why we must correlate performance to organizational goals. Business Performance. The Art Of Balancing Performance With Media Content.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment. Quick Wins.

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