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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

Slow websites are just one problem, but for those of us who spend much of our work and personal time online, slow sites creates extra friction in an already friction-filled world. Web stress" is measurable When websites perform poorly, we react badly.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

This includes building websites, hosting websites, managing campaigns, SEO, analytics, CRM, and much more. It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains. 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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