On July 1st, Pixelhunter, an AI-based online image resizer, was launched on Product Hunt. Soon, it was upvoted to the #3 Product of the Day. At the core of the service is the Uploadcare image …
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HTML5 has brought lots of tools and methods to create web apps that work fast like desktop apps with no page reload. For example, WebSocket lets developers organize bidirectional real-time communication between a client and …
Continue readingThree Absolute Must-Haves to Improve Retail Customer Experience in 2021
Due to the pandemic, people are hesitant to get back to stores and are more conscious of where, what, and how they consume. Hence, if there were only three words to describe an outstanding retail …
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On June 6, a major outage affected several major-league players’ websites, including Amazon, Twitch, Pinterest, Stack Overflow, GitHub, and other services. The problem was caused by a failure at Fastly, a popular CDN provider. The …
Continue readingDifferent Types of Video File Formats and Why WebM and MP4 Beat Them All
Which video formats are the best in terms of size/quality and are compatible with most players on the web, Android & iOS? The short answer for 2021 is: WebM backed up by MP4 is the …
Continue readingCumulative Layout Shift — The Key to a Website’s Visual Stability
Nowadays it’s extremely common to find a website that has dynamically inserted content. Usually it appears in response to a user input. A good example would be a so-called “accordion dropdown,” where hidden content reveals …
Continue readingInfographics: The State of Online Customer Experience (CX) in Ecommerce 2021
While it had many negative impacts, the pandemic gave a great positive boost to many online industries, including ecommerce. Online retail made a mind-blowing leap, with ten years of growth in just a few months. …
Continue readingWhat Is TBT (Total Blocking Time) in Lighthouse and Why It Matters
Before writing this post, I was thinking about the fact that we still use the term “web page.” Ideally it refers to a static layout of content, say, text and images like in a book, …
Continue readingA List of the Most Common Image File Extensions
The ugly truth is that you can’t just blindly upload images to your website without paying attention to formats. This post will tell you everything you need to know about the proper image formatting and …
Continue readingCheat Sheet: Mapping out a Powerful File Handling System
Are you launching an app with user-generated or rich product content? At some point, you’ll need a steady infrastructure for receiving, processing, and delivering files. To save you time on feature planning and research, we’ve …
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