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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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Coming to STATION F: The first Mentor's Office powered by AWS!

All Things Distributed

With this opening, Amazon continues to build out global programs to support startup growth and to speed up innovation. After the launch of AWS in 2006, we saw an acceleration of French startups adopting the cloud. For more details about the Mentor's Office at STATION F, feel free to contact the AWS STATION F team.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

French organizations were amongst the first to use AWS when we launched in 2006. To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern. (Source: mashable.com ) ( Large preview ). It was the implementation of eye-tracking that provided useful insights that helped shape the work of web designers. Users tend to start reading from top/left.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains. Creating A Performance Culture.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

I find it slightly reassuring that, despite there being many websites with very low speeds and high emissions, most of the results are clustered in the bottom right of the chart. On YouTube, the average number of monthly users grew from 20 million in 2006 to 2 billion in 2020. Taking Action. Rendering Is Much Slower on Mobile.

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Front-End Testing is For Everyone

CSS - Tricks

Cem Kaner, “Exploratory Testing” (November 17, 2006). Performance testing is great for checking the speed of your application. you’ll definitely want to know if the changes to your codebase have a negative impact on the speed of the application. That way, you’re able to fix those issues before they make it into production.

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