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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. Alexa Fund , which provides up to $100 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation. After the launch of AWS in 2006, we saw an acceleration of French startups adopting the cloud.

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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

Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements. Eye-tracking is nothing but new, but recent developments in technology made the methodology accessible to businesses of all sizes. “. Mobile UX Research.

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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. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. We also expect this upwards trend to continue as we roll out additional improvements to our platform.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1% The first was c3.

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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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