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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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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

The eye-tracking methodology can be extremely valuable for usability tests since it records the journey without interfering with the users’ natural behavior. Imagine, for example, that you test a prototype but discover that users are not interacting with the interface how they are supposed to. Mariana Macedo. 2021-10-27T10:00:00+00:00.

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Front-End Testing is For Everyone

CSS - Tricks

Testing is one of those things that you either get super excited about or kinda close your eyes and walk away. Whichever camp you fall into, I’m here to tell you that front-end testing is for everyone. In fact, there are many types of tests and perhaps that is where some of the initial fear or confusion comes from. Integration.

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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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Top 20 Websites For Online Automation Testing Courses and Certifications

Testsigma

This article presents a list of some of the best available online Automation Testing courses and certifications you can consider. Hope this answers a few queries we receive for suggestions on Online Automation Testing Courses and Certifications. There are various courses listed on Udemy which can help people learn automation testing.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

According to it, the average page tested “produces 1.76 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. As with most things, testing is key here. grams of CO2 per page view”. Taking Action.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds. It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. I'd expect between 0.1% The first was c3.