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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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Dynatrace named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for APM and Observability, received highest scores in 4 of 6 use cases in the Critical Capabilities for APM and Observability

Dynatrace

Our focus on delivering precise answers and intelligent automation from the enormous amount of data that emanates from these environments has enabled our customers to do their clouds right, minimizing cloud complexity, accelerating adoption of cloud-native technologies, and speeding digital transformation.”. and/or its affiliates in the U.S.

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services. Speeds incident response. By learning what failure scenarios are possible, these teams can speed troubleshooting, repairs, and incident response.

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How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

Dotcom-Montior

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Remember, speed is key to the user experience.

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Building the future of performance with SpeedCurve

Speed Curve

A long time coming I started working on performance back in 2010 (oh no, I’m old). I’m a firm believer that the best possible thing a company can do with monitoring is pair their RUM and synthetic data together, and SpeedCurve was the first tool I’d ever seen put them both under the same umbrella.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Complete Web Monitoring.

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A retailer's guide to web performance

Speed Curve

What you can do: Monitor the speed of your third parties. In 2010, only 1% of the top 1,000 websites used custom fonts. Once you define your budget, SpeedCurve starts monitoring and alerts you if the target budget is exceeded. What you can do (part deux): Track the speed of your hero images.

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