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Re: Web.dev by Google

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Post by richbradshaw »

TomK32 wrote: post #204
bitofhope wrote: post #178

This is useless to me because I have a website, not a web application. I got a 46/100 on PWA which is astonishing because the site being tested is not a progressive web application at all. Imagine vim getting a 40/100 score in the category of web browsers. Weirdly good score. The accessibility audit is garbage as well. Apparently I should add an image to the site just so I can put an alt attribute in it. I should inc…

It even recommend the brand-new WebP format over PNG. Only thing I changed after this audit was to use http2 on my server.

I'm assuming you are being sarcastic about WebP being brand new - the format's been around for 8 years now.

Re: Web.dev by Google

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Post by mangoleaf »

stabbles wrote: post #74

Try and compare cnn.com with lite.cnn.com. Or (if you're Dutch) compare nos.nl with noslite.nl. All hail text only news websites.

Agreed! I love the text only sites. I would add text.npr.org to the list also. I am very tired of sites that spill media and JavaScript all over the place and add no real value, just to slow the site down or to make it completely unusable. A typical site of mine breaks all the rules of current UI design. [1]

[1] http://vqRN.com

Re: Web.dev by Google

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Post by robdodson »

bitofhope wrote: post #178

This is useless to me because I have a website, not a web application. I got a 46/100 on PWA which is astonishing because the site being tested is not a progressive web application at all. Imagine vim getting a 40/100 score in the category of web browsers. Weirdly good score. The accessibility audit is garbage as well. Apparently I should add an image to the site just so I can put an alt attribute in it. I should inc…

I think my comment may get buried but I'll try anyway :)

I'm one of the engineers working on web.dev and recently we had some issues with the way the report was being generated (detail here: https://medium.com/dev-channel/web-dev-status-update-14th-no...)

Specifically, there were audits flagged as "not applicable" and the alpha version of Lighthouse was instead flagging them as failures. That's why it looked like it was telling you to add audio or images—it was actually saying those audits are not applicable because your site doesn't use audio or images. I think that bug has been fixed in Lighthouse but feel free to reply to this comment if you're still seeing it.

We've also temporarily turned off the PWA audits—they were having some bugs of their own based on the infrastructure they were running on. Based on the feedback in this thread we'll look into making them configurable so folks can choose if they want to run them.

We'll also be opening up the repo shortly so folks can file bugs there directly.

Re: Web.dev by Google

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Post by spurgu »

mortehu wrote: post #117
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference in performance between Fastmail and the new Gmail interface right now is freaking stunning. I still load Gmail every few days to see if I have email there, and it's like waiting for Windows 98 to boot.

The main Gmail desktop website is sort of like a desktop application. Most active users keep it permanently open. Try https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/x/ , https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ or https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/mu/ (on mobile these will redirect unless you enable "request desktop site")

This is brilliant. Using the last one. And now https://m.facebook.com/messages/ for FB messenger as well. Thank you for this kind sir!

edit: Last one because it supports keyboard shortcuts.

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