The other half of this statement is in the ever growing Google of it all. This update is dipping a toe into creating other measurable User Satisfaction/UX metrics. So you should be thinking-- what annoys me about websites? How would I measure that? And is my own website up to the task?
the reason we’ve been so dependent on lab data for so long is because RUM data is noisy. The steps CrUX takes to reduce this does help to give a more stable view, but at the cost of it making it difficult to see recent changes.
Don’t use runtime CSS-in-JS if you care about the load performance of your site. Simply less JS = Faster Site. There isn’t much we can do about it. But if you want to see some numbers, continue reading.
Optimizing websites for a quality user experience is key to the long-term success of any site on the web and Core Web Vitals is an initiative Google has provided as a unified guidance for quality signals that are essential to delivering a great user experience on the web. Addy Osmani and Kristofer Baxter, from Google, join us to talk more about Core Web Vitals.
Layout shifts can be caused by the following events:
- Changes to the position of a DOM element
- Changes to the dimensions of a DOM element
- Insertion or removal of a DOM element
- Animations that trigger layout
Provide videos with a supercharged focus on visual performance. This custom element renders just like the real thing but approximately 224× faster.
The first step in improving speed is establishing who is responsible for the effort. Other than responsibility, it’s invaluable to gather a diverse group who can contribute unique ideas to the brainstorming and evaluation session (more on that below). By including people from different business areas, you’ll allow knowledge to spread throughout the organisation more freely too.
This post covers some of the performance issues related to consent banners, how I bypass the banners, and my approach to working out which cookies or localStorage items I need to set to bypass them.
If the median site continued to send 3x the recommended amount of script, when would the web start to feel usable on most of the world's devices?
The first part of this article discusses tooling for debugging layout shifts, while the second part discusses the thought process to use when identifying the cause of a layout shift.
Easily create linear, radial, and conic gradients – and export as CSS or an SVG image.
Iconduck lists over 100,000 free open source icons, illustrations and graphics. They can be used for personal and commercial projects.
"A Super Flexible CSS Carousel, Enhanced With JavaScript Navigation", Maks Akymenko (@maks_akymenko)
Not sure about you, but I often wonder how to build a carousel component in such a way that you can easily dump a bunch of items into the component and get a nice working carousel — one that allows you to scroll smoothly, navigate with the dynamic buttons, and is responsive
Hover and quicklink prefetching works for the vast majority of web apps. I’d recommend starting with hover prefetching moving to quicklink approach if fast navigation is from a high-priority and you don’t have many links.
There’s a huge focus recently on JavaScript bundle size: how big are your dependencies? Could you use a smaller one? Could you lazy-load it? But I believe we focus on bundle size first and foremost because it’s easy to measure.
[…] you could imagine some basic stats around initial CPU execution time, memory usage, and disk usage that wouldn’t be impossible to measure in an automated way.
There has been a lot of uncertainty and confusion since Google announced the Page Experience Update in 2020. With just over three months before the update goes live in May, here's what we know about it.
Guide de "ce qu'il ne faut pas oublier" quand on design pour la performance : écrans de chargement, vide, erreurs, synchronisation, perte de connexion, etc.