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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

Web stress" is measurable When websites perform poorly, we react badly. There is even some research that suggests using slow websites increases our blood pressure !) In 2011, CA Technologies commissioned Foviance, a customer experience consultancy, to conduct a series of lab experiments at Glasgow Caledonian University.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

You can see the impact of these efforts in the Core Web Vitals Technology Report from Google Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) / HTTP Archive : Ratio of sessions with good CWV per platform. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Measuring website performance used to be challenging and required specific expertise.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

Recommended reading : How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. We can’t, for example, choose the devices that our users access our pages from or decide on the network infrastructure that their requests travel through, but we can take steps to improve our websitesperformance. More after jump!

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