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Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study

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Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. I’m a big fan of Smashing Magazine and am very interested in web performance and the Core Web Vitals. Search Console told Smashing Magazine that their LCP on mobile for most of their pages needed improving.

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Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time

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Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. TCP: Establishing a reliable connection to the server.

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A New Pattern For The Jamstack: Segmented Rendering

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Segmented Rendering is a new pattern for the Jamstack that lets you personalize content statically, without any sort of client-side rendering or per-request Server-Side Rendering. You are now “Head of Performance” at Repairing Magazine, the most serious competitor to Smashing Magazine. Congratulations On Your New Job.

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A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

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Smashing Magazine, like most publishers, makes use of web fonts and the below screenshot shows the difference between the initial render (with the fallback fonts), and the final render (with the web fonts): Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Understanding Weak Reference In JavaScript

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Let’s illustrate this with some snippets: let smashing = {name: "magazine"}; // The object can be accessed from the reference. // Overwrite the reference smashing. let smashing = {name: "magazine"}; let arr = [smashing]; // Overwrite the reference. smashing = null; console.log(array[0]) // {name: 'magazine'}. Additional Data.

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Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool

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Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

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Too many concurrent server requests can lead to website crashes if youre not equipped to deal with them. You can free up space and reduce the load on your server by compressing and optimizing images. With Cloudways Autonomous your website is hosted on multiple servers instead of just one.

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