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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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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. More after jump!

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An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

LCP is supposed to measure loading performance and is a good proxy for all the old metrics we in the performance community used to use (i.e. Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. CrUX LCP dashboard ( Large preview ). CrUX is Chrome only.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

However, as long as there is no established endorsement of the performance culture, each decision will turn into a battlefield of departments, breaking up the organization into silos. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!), Start Render time, Speed Index ).

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

Smashing Magazine

However, as long as there is no established endorsement of the performance culture, each decision will turn into a battlefield of departments, breaking up the organization into silos. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Large preview ).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

However, as long as there is no established endorsement of the performance culture, each decision will turn into a battlefield of departments, breaking up the organization into silos. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Intended as a RUM metric only.