Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. So, you want to give personality to your site by making it stand out from all other websites out there. Leonardo Losoviz. 2021-11-09T09:30:00+00:00.

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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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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

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. Here, Ive tested a website thats hosted in Brazil.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. Your website may be using more third-party services than you realize. Ken Harker.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Building Gatsby Themes For WordPress-Powered Websites. Building Gatsby Themes For WordPress-Powered Websites. With Gatsby, you can pull data from (almost) anywhere and use it to generate static or dynamic websites. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. Paulina Hetman. 2021-12-27T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-12-27T12:05:13+00:00.

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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. You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. Web App Manifest.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). Powered E-Commerce Website (Case Study). There are also some other issues we faced through many pages in our website which contribute to CLS. Infinite Scroll: On our website, product listing pages have infinite scrolling. Solving CLS Issues In A Next.js-Powered Arijit Mondal.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. Lighthouse results. One type is called lab data.

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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

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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Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

Pressing Matters magazine. It’s an independently published magazine which “hones in on the people, passion and processes behind the art form of printmaking.” © Pressing Matters Magazine. Pressing Matters’ Creative Director John Coe uses layout patterns which produce a rhythm which flows throughout the magazine.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis Matt Zeunert 2025-03-06T10:00:00+00:00 2025-03-06T14:50:25+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) in Core Web Vitals measures how quickly a website loads from a visitors perspective.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Vue Devtools ,” website. Development Process. Development Process. Uma Victor. 2021-07-08T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. Custom Directives ,” Official Docs. Vue’s Reactivity ,” Official Docs. “ Talk on Composition API vs Vuex.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. By running basic optimizations of our videos before adding them to our websites, we can prevent these issues from occurring for good — well, most of them. There is a solution though!

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. This gives us at Smashing Magazine plenty to write about, which is great, though it’s worth reminding ourselves what it’s all in service of. Yes, magazine spreads have a certain class about them. Frederick O’Brien.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. One of the famous examples is Flipkart , India’s largest e-commerce website. For a while, Flipkart adopted an app-only strategy and temporarily shut down its mobile website altogether. This optimization is quite complex in nature though.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2019

I started a magazine collection, studied books on art direction and graphic design, and discovered art directors, including Alexey Brodovitch, Neville Brody, Bea Feitler, and Tom Wolsey. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Magazine Anatomy. Time away helped me rediscover my enthusiasm for design. Ernest Journal.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience. What Are Core Web Vitals?

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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

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. there was a separate subdomain for a mobile website). Infrastructure Integration.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We love hearing from customers who successfully increase their website’s performance. Recently, we noticed one website see such a dramatic improvement that we had to ask for more details. He switched his site from a PHP site to a static site built with static website generator Jekyll. The secret? Source: CloudCannon.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

In the second stage, I weighed edX’s website against the 10 usability heuristics identified by Jacob Nielsen. They are visiting various websites, looking for a course that grabs their attention. Problem 1: “Can I Trust This Website?”. Speeding up the registration process is yet another crucial UX principle.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. After learning about Alexey Brodovitch ’s influential work on Harper’s Bazaar until the 1950s, I wanted to know the impact his legacy had on the magazine. Feitler has as much to teach people who design for the web as she did the magazine designers who followed her. Large preview ).

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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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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As such, I urge you always to be mindful of the website while scraping, take care not to damage it, and follow ethical guidelines. Recommended Reading : “ The Guide To Ethical Scraping Of Dynamic Websites With Node.js So, it goes without saying just how big of a data treasure trove the website is. Not all websites are the same.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. The Smashing team has done a lot to make a fast website, so even a fresh load (though this experiment may not be a completely fresh load if you came to this article from the home page). Here’s an experiment for you.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This way, you’ll not only have the information you need to read your performance reports come March 2024 but can proactively prepare your website for the change. Ultimately, what matters is how real users experience your website, and you need to look at the CrUX data to see that. What page elements do users interact with most often?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This space can act as its own website — not tied to anything. This enables you to use wildcards in more than one route without duplicating code as well as speeding up the processing as code execution happens on the edge. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. “ Hosting Content And Personal Portfolios. split(".")[0];

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? Suzanne Scacca. 2019-03-28T10:30:39+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. This is a sponsored article.)

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. They used eye-tracking to measure visual attention on banners, animated graphics, and navigational tools in websites. This is a click heatmap of a website.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

Many previous reading studies investigated the effect of typography on reading speed. But we know that faster speed does not always equate to better comprehension. In fact, better comprehension is often associated with slower reading speed.” — Sofie Beier (legibility expert), “ Bringing together science and typography ”.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

WordPress is the most used website builder in the world; almost half of the web has used WordPress to create their website. It makes sense, because it allows you to quickly create websites and has a rich plugin’s ecosystem to help you scale your site. The Benefits Of Going Headless And When It Makes Sense.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

If your website is loading slowly, thats bad for user experience and can also cause your site to rank lower in Google. Theyve also added this data to the Chrome UX Report , allowing you to see what causes delays for real visitors on your website! But that depends on your specific website and wont always be the case.

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

As she focused on UX strategy, design patterns for responsive websites, and mobile-first design, she quickly realized that it’s critical to create a culture that prioritizes web performance. She also recommends following Smashing Magazine and HTTP Archive for additional information. Alla Gringaus #webperf Click To Tweet. says Gringaus.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. Large preview ) That’s a nice big view and is a good illustration of TBT’s impact on page speed. That’s a lifetime in web seconds, particularly considering that this test is based on a desktop experience on a high-speed connection.

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