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EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.

Les équipes du Monde nous ont chargé de réduire les émissions de CO2 liées à l'utilisation de leur site de 30%. Pari tenu ?

In this post, we reflect on the current state of green architectural practices and look ahead to the next logical steps including sustainable architecture, carbon-aware tooling and the massive stake cloud providers have in making or breaking this last-ditch effort to literally save the world.

How the Netflix TVUI team implemented a robust strategy to quickly and easily detect performance anomalies before they a

This simple psychological trick could vastly reduce tech's carbon footprint.

Each font variant (bold, medium, etc.) requires an additional file, which slows down navigation. Except if you use variable fonts!

Optimizing Core Web Vitals on The Economic Times website significantly improved the user experience and substantially reduced bounce rate across the entire website.

First load performance is important, but it's not everything. Users who load your site a second time will use their cache to get access to your content—so it's key to make sure it works well too, both for speed and correctness.

De quoi parle-t-on lorsque l’on évoque la souveraineté numérique ? Comment s’exerce le pouvoir des États et citoyens dans l’espace numérique ?

Empreinte environnementale du numérique en France : l’ADEME et l’Arcep remettent leur premier rapport au gouvernement

The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.

Missguided are one of the UK's most innovative and fast-moving fashion retailers but as with many other retailers, web performance hasn't always been our highest priority.

There's been an explosion in 3rd-Party Tags… And as Tim Kadlec once said

I’ve researched and learned enough about client-side memory leaks to know that most web developers aren’t worrying about them too much. If a web app leaks 5 MB on every interaction, but…

À quoi faisons-nous attention ? De sa qualité à sa manipulation, les enjeux de la protection de notre attention à l’heure du numérique sont majeurs. Le Conseil national du numérique appelle à passer un cap dans la protection de notre attention et publie ce jour un dossier intitulé « Votre attention, s’il vous plaît ! Quels leviers face à l’économie de l’attention ? ». Au sommaire :

Bulli Bai is just the latest in GitHub's list of moderation failures.

You're not too stupid to understand what's going on.

A resource for cultivating awareness of when and how cognitive bias can be introduced into the design process.

Le jeu vidéo est accessible à tous les niveaux, même aux débutants.

User experience vs. diagnostic metrics A few years ago, Google introduced the Core Web Vitals metrics. If you've been following web performance for a while, you know there are already a lot of metrics. Dozens and dozens of them, and new ones are being experimented with continually. So it's not surpr

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can

In this article, we'll analyze Terra's journey from identifying the size of the "dark mode" cohort, to applying a custom dark theme, and finally measuring the impact of this implementation on their main KPIs.

The carbon footprint of streaming video: fact-checking the headlines - A commentary by George Kamiya

It was pouring with rain and I found myself driving. I didn’t know where I was going. I just needed out of the house. I needed to escape. After what felt like an age I found myself parked outside my parents' house, just staring at their front door. Eventually I got out of the car, rang the doorbell and burst into tears the moment my mum answered.

We all know them: programmers with long term experience stuck on a low-level of our craft not corresponding to their quantity of experience. Great programmers are creative workers and problem-solvers and one of their most important traits is: never stop learning – but getting stuck in its own comfort zone and becoming reluctant to change is deeply wired into human nature (Humans are hard-wired to follow the path of least resistance).

If you’re reading this then you are a participant in the modern web. The web we are experiencing today is much different than what it was just 10 years ago. How has the web evolved, and more importantly – where is it going next? Also, why do any of these