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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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Real-World Effectiveness of Brotli

CSS Wizardry

One of the more fundamental rules of building fast websites is to optimise your assets, and where text content such as HTML, CSS, and JS are concerned, we’re talking about compression. 21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! decrease in file-size. Okay, yeah.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. This book shares guidelines and innovative techniques that will help you plan and execute a comprehensive SEO strategy.

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Comparison between Testsigma and Protractor alternatives

Testsigma

It uses angular-specific locator strategies to make it easier to automate the end-to-end test cases on these applications. Protractor was created in 2013 when WebDriver APIs were not yet a standard and end-to-end (e2e) tests were hard to write due to lack of support for async / await. So, without further ado, let’s begin.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

But in 2013 and 2014, it remained stuck at 83% , and while in the ten years since, it has reached 95% , it had become clear that the easy money that came from acquiring more users was ending. Without websites, there would be no need for Google search or raw material for its results; without merchants, no Amazon.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

That also means answering this other question: “How can one evaluate, manage and guarantee the quality of a website?” When delving into the concept of website quality assurance back in 2001, we started with a simple question: “What does quality mean for the users?”. That means describing what a website is.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. The key benefit of employing a Multi-CDN strategy is its increased reliability and redundancy.