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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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The Rise of Value Stream Management (VSM)

Tasktop

In 2006, I got a call from a Forrester analyst. Not only does a pure play platform enable choice, but it also enables speed to value that, in Tasktop’s experience, is measured in days, not weeks or months. . Your VSM strategy will be the foundation of your digital transformation and the shift from project to product.

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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. However, conducting online experiments is a fairly inexpensive way to develop better websites, apps, services, and strategies and make decisions not based on intuition, but on scientific data.

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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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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

In 2006, Denis Defreyne tried to set up a Ruby-based blog platform and ran into performance problems — “Having a VPS with only 96 MB of RAM, any Ruby-based CMS ran extremely slowly.” We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here. MovableType really was before its time. Large scale blogs. Dynamic functionality.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

© ​​ 2006 ​​ Microsoft Corporation. Restore backups on secondary systems ​​ frequently ​​ to make sure that your complete backup strategy is functioning correctly. ​​ All rights reserved. No specific error about this damage is produced.

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