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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. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. Web Performance Collection.

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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 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 !) This is not surprising given what we now know about our deep craving for flow.

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