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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications. Web Performance Daybook-Volume-2. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In 1993 and again in 2010 , usability expert Jakob Nielsen found that: 0.1 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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