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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

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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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