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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

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 !) In 2011, CA Technologies commissioned Foviance, a customer experience consultancy, to conduct a series of lab experiments at Glasgow Caledonian University.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Patrick created the popular open source WebPageTest web performance measurement tool, runs the free instance of it at WebPageTest , and can frequently be found in its forums helping site owners understand and improve their website performance. Addy Osmani. Addy Osmani. Applications.