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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 14th, 2018

High Scalability

Cables of course going down into the room at both ends. Going back we had two dedicated 1,200-baud lines: high-speed lines at the time. davidfrum : In order to lose 80% of its value, the bitcoin network expended more electricity than 150 of the world's 195 countries. That was our video link. Homemade modems.

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Hello from Europe!

Speed Curve

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. We were already using both synthetic and network-based real user monitoring (RUM) tools to measure how fast our site was, so we knew we had room to improve.

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Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 Web Worker migration

The Morning Paper

Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. This could of course be a local worker on the mobile device. due to total loss of internet connectivity) then the worker needs to be restarted.

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Using SWR React Hooks With Next.js’ Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR)

Smashing Magazine

SWR does not just revalidate the data once, however, you can configure SWR to revalidate the data on an interval, when the tab regains focus, when a client reconnects to the Internet or programmatically. The more interesting thing, however, is the impact on the speed of our side. seconds for the ISR + SWR variant of the site and 5.8

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Gzip vs Brotli – Best Browser Compression

MachMetrics

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Brotli offers a significant speed advantage over Gzip, which is why the Brotli vs Gzip debate has really picked up steam. Never change, Internet Explorer. How Do I Implement Brotli? This can be pretty CPU intensive.

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Fallacy #3: Bandwidth is infinite

Particular Software

Everyone who is old enough to remember the sound of connecting to the Internet with a dial-up modem or of AOL announcing that "You've got mail" is acutely aware that there is an upper limit to how fast something can be downloaded, and it never seems to be as fast as we would like it.

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