Introducing RAIL: A User-Centric Model For Performance

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October 2, 2015 — There’s no shortage of performance advice, is there? The elephant in the room is the fact that it’s challenging to interpret: Everything comes with caveats and disclaimers, and sometimes one piece of ... Read More…

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Dean Hume wrote

Understanding Critical CSS

August 13, 2015 — The web is slow, yet there are a few simple strategies to make websites faster. One of them is inlining critical CSS into the <head> of your pages, yet how exactly do you do it if your site contains hundreds of pages, or even worse, hundreds of different templates? You … Read More…

Dave Newton wrote

Efficient Image Resizing With ImageMagick

June 25, 2015 — Responsive images have been keeping us on our toes for quite some time, and now that they are getting traction in browsers, they come with a scary problem: the need to efficiently resize all our image assets. The way responsive images work is that an appropriately sized … Read More…

Murdoch Carpenter wrote

A Better Way To Design For Retina In Photoshop

May 18, 2015 — Recently, I had a project in which I needed to produce high-fidelity screens for a tablet. I was to present these screens on the device and also produce a clickable prototype. They needed to be pixel-perfect. The timeline was tight (as always), so I went with my go-to tool, … Read More…

Rachel Andrew wrote

Controlling The Cache: Using Edge Side Includes In Varnish

February 16, 2015 — I’m a firm believer that the best way to optimize for fast-loading mobile sites is to optimize for everyone. We don’t know when someone is on a non-mobile device but tethered to their phone, or just on awful Wi-Fi. In a previous article for Smashing Magazine I explained how … Read More…

Denis Ryabov & Ugur Kaner wrote

Redefining Lazy Loading With Lazy Load XT

February 3, 2015 — Lazy loading is a common software design pattern that defers the initialization of objects until they are needed. Lazy loading images started to become popular on the web back in 2007, when Mika Tuupola drew inspiration from the YUI ImageLoader utility and released a jQuery … Read More…

James Rosewell wrote

Enabling Multiscreen Tracking With Google Analytics

November 12, 2014 — We are increasingly using responsive design, responsive design with server-side components (RESS), adaptive design and combinations thereof to provide great high-performance multiscreen experiences. However, analytics implementations often miss information that is important … Read More…

Ville-Veikko Helppi wrote

What Every App Developer Should Know About Android

October 2, 2014 — In today’s fast-paced mobile market, consumers have no patience for mobile apps that compromise their experience. “Crashes” and “Not working” are the most common feedback on Google Play for unstable or sluggish apps (including games). Those comments and ratings make hundreds … Read More…

Vitaly Friedman wrote

Improving Smashing Magazine's Web Performance: A Case Study

September 8, 2014 — Today Smashing Magazine turns eight years old. Eight years is a long time on the web, yet for us it really doesn’t feel like a long journey at all. Things have changed, evolved and moved on, and we gratefully take on new challenges one at a time. To mark this special … Read More…

Maximiliano Firtman wrote

You May Be Losing Users If Responsive Web Design Is Your Only Mobile Strategy

July 22, 2014 — You resize the browser and a smile creeps over your face. You’re happy: You think you are now mobile-friendly, that you have achieved your goals for the website. Let me be a bit forward before getting into the discussion: You are losing users and probably money if responsive … Read More…

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