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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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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 14th, 2018

High Scalability

Cables of course going down into the room at both ends. Going back we had two dedicated 1,200-baud lines: high-speed lines at the time. They set up a microwave link: two transmitters on the top of the building at SRI, receiver/ transmitters up on Skyline Boulevard on a truck, and two receivers at the Civic Center. Homemade modems.

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How To Speed Test Your Site From All Over The World

MachMetrics

Our most recent article identified (and remedied) the 4 most common page speed testing mistakes we see website owners making, and it inspired us to do even more to help those who make mistake #2: Only testing from 1 location. Of course, testing won’t often be available exactly where you are, but we can get very close.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

After that, I joined MySpace back at its peak as a data engineer and got my first taste of data warehousing at internet-scale. Over the course of your time here, how has your role evolved? When we were a smaller company, the ability to span multiple functions was valued for agility and speed of delivery.

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Hello from Europe!

Speed Curve

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. And, of course, what can actually be done to make a site faster? Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark.

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Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

Smashing Magazine

Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. That it could find a new audience as an animated series online, then be nominated for not one but two Emmys , is testament to the transformative powers of the internet. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial.

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If You’re Not Lazy Loading Your Images, You’re Being Wasteful

MachMetrics

Did you order a 5 course meal, but then only eat 2 of them? Of course not, that would be a waste. Most browsers implement the Intersection Observer API, common libraries make it super simple to implement, and speed is more important than ever. Think about the last time you went out to dinner. The jQuery Lazy Plugin.

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