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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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Best Web Performance Books to Learn Site Speed Optimization

MachMetrics

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge For Front-End Engineers. If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, Let’s get started!

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How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

There are three web vitals metrics Google uses to measure different aspects of website performance: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), Interaction to Next Paint (INP). You’ll often see different page speed metrics reported by different tools and data sources, so it’s important to understand the differences.

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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

For example, if you land on a website that is blocked, you won’t see any warning or information regarding that. Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc. Monitor your website speed from China. Deep Packet Inspection. Resetting Connections.

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What Does My Website Look Like From China? Test and Monitor Performance from China

Dotcom-Montior

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. With the networks all around the world, theoretically, you can do business boundlessly. To investigate this topic, let’s first check how important your website performance is to your online business.

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Dynamic Content Vs. Static Content: What Are the Main Differences

IO River

This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches. This increased bandwidth consumption can affect server costs, network performance, and user data usage.‍How How Can You Boost Website Performance?To

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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. Prioritize Performance Improvements.

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