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The 2-second Website

MachMetrics

If you asked the average internet user how slow a website would need to load before they gave up and left, they might say something like 8 or 10 seconds. Obviously, you don’t need to make your website look like it’s from 2005. Unfortunately, visitors actually give up on websites much faster. Source: ThinkWithGoogle.

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How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. We still have a lot of work to do! Large preview ).

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

I have regenerated all pages since 2005, the pages before that can be found in the "/historical" section. My templates and blog posts are now located in DropBox and thus locally cached at each machine I use. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB รข??

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