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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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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. Maintaining reliable uptime and consistent service quality has become more complex as organizations expand their computing footprints across multiple data centers and in the cloud.

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Customer expectations for retail: Beyond digital experience

Dynatrace

While digital experience has many facets, transaction speed usually ranks among the most important. Almost two decades ago, a Google experiment showed that fast-loading transactions are more important to customers than content quality—even small increases in transaction delay result in substantially more abandoned sessions.

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How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking

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In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Speed Index.

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Does Interaction to Next Paint actually correlate to user behavior?

Speed Curve

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. Safari users currently account for roughly 20% of global traffic. In North America, Safari users represent almost one-third of all traffic.) INP will replace First Input Delay (FID) as a Core Web Vital in March of 2024.

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How to Get Ready for Google’s Speed Update

Rigor

Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. Get Familiar with your Analytics.

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Hello INP! Here's everything you need to know about the newest Core Web Vital

Speed Curve

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. This frustration is hardwired, as you can learn in this post about the psychology of site speed and human happiness.)

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