Optimizing Google Font Performance

SVG is helping developers to manage some of the challenges of image rendering. And for Google Fonts, which is the most popularly used web font, improving a page’s rendering time is just about deploying the several available tricks for optimizing Google Font performance. Here is how to do it.

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Web Push Notifications: How to Make Them Work for Your Site

Web push notifications are small messages from a website, which you can opt in to receive when prompted. They’re like notifications you’d get on your phone, popping up instead in the corner of your computer screen (which corner depends on your desktop OS). The best part? Users become subscribers with just one click. Here is how to make the most out of them.

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SVG for Developers: Understanding the Basics, Benefits and Disadvantages

Considering how important graphics are on any website, every website developer should master the image formats available to them. As the SVG image format is becoming the format of the future, it is important to have a fair grip on what it is, how to create it, and why you should use it. Here is all you should know about it.

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10 Chrome Console Tips You Need to Know

Google has really worked hard to make Chrome DevTools as developer-friendly as possible. So much so that the question is no longer what you can do using these developer tools built directly into Google Chrome browser. It’s now a matter of how much you know about the chrome console.

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42 WordPress Products For Any High-Performance Website

Running a successful site is a complicated business. There’s simply so much you have to take into account. Gone are the days when a good idea was enough. Now you have to take into account hosting, SEO rating, traffic flow, and much, much more. So here are some great tools to help you out.

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CSS Variables in Pure CSS – Getting Started in 5 Minutes or Less

CSS variables in pure CSS are a huge time saver. 92% of all users have browsers that support them. Using CSS variables doesn’t require any significant changes in existing stylesheets or new tools and can be easily applied to old projects. Instead of having a hex color code written down in hundreds of places in a file, you can have it defined in just one place – in a CSS variable.

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Transactional Email Service Providers Comparison

If you want your emails delivered, opened, read and clicked you can’t send them from any old random server. You need a dedicated, specialized service for sending transactional emails. Like it or not, it’s a must. Those services bring a lot of benefits like advanced stats and high reliability, so they’re far from “wasted money”. We gathered 15 to see how they fare features & price wise.

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How to Add The CodeMirror Code Editor to any WordPress Plugin or Theme

CodeMirror is a versatile JavaScript component that turns any HTML textarea into a full-featured code editor. It comes with WP and vastly improves the code editing experience; specifically, syntax highlighting, linting, and code competition. If your plugin or theme has a field where users enter any type of code (HTML, CSS, PHP) you need to implement CodeMirror today!

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People Who Don’t Build Email Lists Die at Early Age

If you open any website for the first time, it’ll greet you with a minimum of two chores. One is to close the cookie / GDPR consent box, and the other is to enter your email. By the end of your session, you’ll be asked for the email another 5 times. On an average day, you’ll be prompted for your email at least a hundred times. Do you like that? No, you don’t, and neither do your visitors, but people collect emails, so they don’t die!

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Various Tools & Services I Use Daily That Keep Me Sane

We all have our little private toolboxes. A set of services, plugins, and tools we use every day. They are far from perfect, but if we use something every day it can’t be all that bad, right? This is a part of my toolbox. Nothing more than that. It’s a set of tools that save me time and money on a daily basis. Hopefully, they’ll help you too.

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