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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

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

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Luckily, there are many great options that help you automate the collection of data and measure how your website performs over time according to these metrics. For security reasons, to avoid fingerprinting, browsers have been implementing partitioned caching that was introduced in Safari back in 2013, and in Chrome last year.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Luckily, there are many great options that help you automate the collection of data and measure how your website performs over time according to these metrics. For security reasons, to avoid fingerprinting, browsers have been implementing partitioned caching that was introduced in Safari back in 2013, and in Chrome last year.