Cheat sheet: Judging a front end
The 26 terms of this lesson, part by part, with the French word a team in France would use.
1. Page weight
- Page weightpoids de la page
- the total size of all the files a page downloads, measured in megabytes (MB).
- Medianmédiane
- the middle value: half of the pages weigh more, and half weigh less.
- Kilobytekilo-octet, Ko
- a unit of file size, a thousandth of a megabyte, written KB.
- HTTP ArchiveHTTP Archive
- a project that measures millions of websites every month and publishes the yearly Web Almanac.
2. Speed on real phones
- Core Web VitalsSignaux Web essentiels
- three measures of real visits that Google uses: how fast content appears, reacts to a tap and stays still.
- Field datadonnées terrain
- measures collected from real visitors' devices, rather than from one test on one computer.
- LighthouseLighthouse
- a free audit in Chrome's developer tools that scores a page's speed and accessibility and lists its problems.
3. What search engines and link previews read
- Search enginemoteur de recherche
- a service, such as Google or Bing, that reads pages across the web and lists them in its results.
- Crawlerrobot d'indexation
- a program that visits pages automatically to read them, for a search engine or an AI assistant.
- Link previewaperçu de lien
- the title, text and picture that a messaging app or social network shows when someone pastes a link.
- Page sourcecode source de la page
- the HTML exactly as the server sent it, shown when you right-click a page and choose "View page source".
4. Accessibility
- Accessibilityaccessibilité
- how well people with a disability can use a site, for example with a screen reader, the keyboard or larger text.
- Alt texttexte alternatif
- a short text that replaces a picture, read aloud by screen readers and shown if the picture doesn't load.
- Screen readerlecteur d'écran
- software that reads a page aloud, so that blind people and people with poor sight can use it.
- WCAGWCAG
- the international guidelines for making web content accessible, on which the French RGAA is based.
5. How long a framework lasts
- End of supportfin de support
- the date after which the makers of a tool stop fixing it, even for security problems.
- Major versionversion majeure
- a new version of a tool that can change how it works, so projects may need work to move to it.
- Deprecatedobsolète, déprécié
- described by its makers as no longer recommended, usually because it will stop receiving fixes.
- Migrationmigration
- moving a site from one tool or version to another, while keeping its content and behaviour.
6. Who you can hire
- Freelancerfreelance, indépendant
- a person who works alone for several clients, paid per project or per day.
- Day ratetaux journalier, TJM
- the price of one day of a person's work, which agencies and freelancers use to price a project.
- Job offeroffre d'emploi
- a public announcement that a company wants to hire someone, listing the skills it asks for.
7. What to ask
- Page weightpoids de la page
- the total size of all the files a page downloads, measured in megabytes (MB).
- Core Web VitalsSignaux Web essentiels
- three measures of real visits that Google uses: how fast content appears, reacts to a tap and stays still.
- Screen readerlecteur d'écran
- software that reads a page aloud, so that blind people and people with poor sight can use it.
- End of supportfin de support
- the date after which the makers of a tool stop fixing it, even for security problems.
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