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How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

Testsigma

The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. This essentially means that your website should not only be mobile-friendly but it should also have a Responsive Web Design so that your target customers can access your products (or services) with ultra-ease on their hand-held devices.

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JavaScript growth and third parties

Speed Curve

JavaScript is the main cause for making websites slow. Ten years ago it was network bottlenecks, but the growth of JavaScript has outpaced network and CPU improvements on today's devices. The following chart shows the growth in the total size of JavaScript from 2011. Certainly the amount of JavaScript has increased.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

Time is a crucial usability factor If you don't consider time a crucial usability factor, you're missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience I'm embarrassed to admit that, in my previous career as a usability tester, I spent years testing websites in lab conditions. It never crossed my mind to take rendering time into consideration.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Perhaps a more direct way to say this in the context of economic value creation is that companies such as Amazon and Google and Facebook had developed a set of remarkable advances in networked and data-enabled market coordination. From 2000 to 2011, the percentage of US adults using the internet had grown from about 60% to nearly 80%.

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Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition)

Smashing Magazine

If you’re already familiar with the HTMHell website, then you can guess how interesting its advent calendar is going to get! Counting down to Christmas, this calendar is dedicated to sharing a new tip for protecting your devices, networks, and data each day. Accessible websites are simply better websites. Bekk Christmas.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you. Comments ().

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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

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