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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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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

Some of the largest enterprises and public sector organizations in Italy are using AWS to build innovations and power their businesses, drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time-to-market. To meet such large traffic numbers, they need a technology infrastructure that is secure, reliable, and flexible.

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SEO and web performance: What to measure and how to optimize

Speed Curve

But Google's prioritization of page speed in search ranking isn't new, even for mobile. As far back as 2013, Google announced that pages that load slowly on mobile devices would be penalized in mobile search. Google engineer Addy Osmani recently did a great talk about image optimization at Smashing Meets for Speed.

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Testing a mobile application: an examination of strategy and tools

Testsigma

Studies by Gartner showed that as early as 2013, companies were bringing in $26 billion through app revenues. Not only will this help speed track the testing process, it will also help make the objectives clearer. External factors testing to ensure your app responds correctly whenever there is a network issue or connectivity problem.

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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. This reconfirms observations from the HTTP Archive , published by Steve Souders in 2013. That is unlikely given the need for SRI annotations or the unbecoming practice of speeding up high-traffic sites, but not others.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Large preview ).