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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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Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study

Smashing Magazine

Of course, it matters what your users experience rather than what some search engine crawler sees, but one of the great things about the Core Web Vitals initiative is that it does measure real user experience rather than what Google Bot sees! Authors are important of course, but is that really what the reader came here to see?

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Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

Smashing Magazine

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Win, win, win.

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

This market then funds all of the R&D and operational costs of search engines, including "traffic acquisition costs" like browser default placement deals. [2]. Mobile accounts for two-thirds of web traffic (or thereabouts ), making outsized iOS adoption among wealthy users particularly salient to publishers and advertisers.

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Getting NServiceBus ready for the cloud

Particular Software

Any queue traffic between applications on different machines would be between MSMQ instances, using MSMQ’s specific communication. Creating a hybrid cloud solution for reports Of course, unexpected things always come up in big projects like this, and in this case, our surprise “gotcha” was SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

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. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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Serverless at re:Invent 2017

The Symphonia

That means that 3GB functions might not see a linear speed bump for primarily single threaded functions. Traffic shaping / canary deployment was pre-announced at Serverless Conf NYC in October, and this is now available. Like Lambda, API Gateway now supports canary deployment / traffic shaping. without web app servers?—?to