Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. The web app manifest is the core for making a website run as a stand-alone application in full-screen mode.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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. It’s not uncommon to find websites with extremely large videos — for example, used used as hero background videos. There is a solution though! Real-World Data. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

These days it is fairly uncommon to encounter a new website or web app that doesn’t rely on some framework, or a platform such as a CMS. In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. Dan Shappir. 2022-05-12T09:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-12T10:16:36+00:00.

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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. In other words, the data is not looking at your actual web traffic but a simulated environment that gives you an approximate view of traffic when certain conditions are in place.

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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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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

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

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. This data is distinct from CrUX because it’s collected directly by the website owner by installing an analytics snippet on their website. So why use lab data at all? There’s no one right value.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

One of the biggest pains of working with statically generated websites is the incrementally slower builds as your app grows. Though not recommended for real-world scenarios (you will want to pre-render your traffic-heavy routes), it marks clearly the range of build-time performance improvement we can achieve with this approach.

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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

JUNE 25, 2021

In the second stage, I weighed edX’s website against the 10 usability heuristics identified by Jacob Nielsen. The tool analyzes edX’s rank, traffic sources, advertising, and audience interests. They are visiting various websites, looking for a course that grabs their attention. Problem 1: “Can I Trust This Website?”.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I tried with loads of websites to see how they behave in iframe. I observed that most of the websites don’t work in iframe due to x-frame-options and content-security-policy headers. The ability to modify the headers of traffic that pass through your browser is a great tool to have. Advantages Of Using Selenium WebDriver.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. This is applicable to pages that receive little to no traffic, so small sites without field data don’t need to be worried. What Are The Core Web Vitals?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

This is high-quality data from actual website visitors, for example based on Google’s Chrome User Experience (CrUX) Report. It’s another type of real-user monitoring takes real traffic from your site and sends the information over for extremely accurate results. A second type of data is called real-user data.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

The biggest distinction is that a website can’t be built with a headless CMS on its own. Wordpress relies heavily on plugins and themes which may contain malicious codes or bugs and slow the speed of the website or blog. A CMS that gives complete freedom to build a website or a branded blog with full SEO and supports any tech stack.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions. In the early days of the Internet, encrypting traffic was quite costly in terms of processing.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). However, to the firewall, this will look as if a new connection is being used without first using a handshake, which might just as well be an attacker sending malicious traffic. Even if a server supports HTTP/3, however, clients (and website owners!)

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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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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively. Philip Kiely.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I wanted to simulate a slow connection like those experienced by users in Uzbekistan, to see what kind of experience websites would give me. I installed ModHeader and set the ‘Save-Data’ header to let websites know I want to minimise my data usage. A great example would be a website that shows the weather forecast for the week.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

This is particularly important for web applications that experience high traffic or demand, as Web Workers can help to ensure that the application can handle an increased load without impacting performance. Practical Applications Of Web Workers Let us explore some of the most common and useful applications of Web Workers.

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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. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. How To Boost Resource Loading With The New Priority Hint `fetchpriority`.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

That’s approximately 35 hours 32 minutes of downtime per year, per website. After that, we set up a basic WordPress website and start monitoring them with Pingdom.com. Tools like Pingdom or Appoptics APM let you regularly check if a website or app is available.) And downtime even happens to online giants. Total outages: 19.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Deploying the refactored codebase shouldn’t result in worse website performance and worse user experience. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. We can expand the metric to glean insights into what exactly is causing traffic on the main thread. We want fewer cars on the road to alleviate traffic on the main thread. Large preview ) There we go. It replaces the First Input Delay (FI D ) metric.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

It always starts with the long-awaited website overhaul. A big JavaScript bundle might seem out of place on a magazine that merely publishes articles, but actually, there is plenty of scripting happening behind the scenes. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Chrome users.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This means that it will not magically download your website resources much more quickly than TCP. Some examples of the latter are heavily cached websites, as well as single-page apps that periodically fetch small updates via APIs and other protocols such as DNS-over-QUIC. What Does It All Mean? 0-RTT Connection Set-Up.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

A website today receives a large chunk of its traffic from evergreen browsers — most of which have good support for ES6+, new JavaScript standards, new web platform APIs and CSS attributes. Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers. Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Businesses that achieve BCorp status can benefit (according to the website) from “committed and motivated employees, increased customer loyalty, higher levels of innovation, and market leadership”. Asim talked about Performance Mode in Microsoft Edge: switching on Performance Mode means users get a faster website, while also saving resources.

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