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JANUARY 7, 2025

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic.

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MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. Testing the Smashing Magazine website on different devices. LT Browser in action. Large preview ).

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MARCH 7, 2022

Approximately two-thirds of Indian mobile Chrome users of Smashing Magazine have this setting turned on, for example. However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. For Smashing Magazine, that involved dropping some of our web fonts. And Is It Used?

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. If throttling is applied at the operating system level , then the metrics match what a real user with those network conditions would experience.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. On Smashing Magazine, we could measure 19-32% improvement , too. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools. Large preview ). Set up "clean" and "customer" profiles for testing.

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