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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

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. Is that fair?

Speed

Speed Website Mobile Cloud

OKRs Examples for Software Companies

Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2022

OKRs should be designed so that every team’s activities can be traced up to the company’s vision. This is easier said than done, so we’ve designed three sets of OKRs examples for software companies to show how it’s possible. Get the ebook on designing flow-based OKRs. This is your Objective.

Software

Software Software Healthcare Mobile

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. Frederick O’Brien. More after jump!

Design

Design Internet Internet Mobile

How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website

Website Internet Internet Performance

How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website

Website Internet Internet Performance

7 Best Performance Testing Tools to Look Out for in 2021

DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial. For example, the gaming app has to present definite actions to bring the right experience.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance

Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website. So, you want to give personality to your site by making it stand out from all other websites out there. Leonardo Losoviz. 2021-11-09T09:30:00+00:00.

Website

Website Social Media Media Design

Google planning a new ‘Badge of Shame’ for slow websites

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. Early looks show one option being the ‘Badge of Shame’ showing on a splash screen as a slow website loads. Another displays a green loading bar for a website known to load quickly.

Google

Google Website Best Practices Internet

Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Performance. Accessibility.

Google

Google Speed Testing Tools Testing

How PHP Web Development Beneficial For Online Business?

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

When you decide to develop a business website, there are many things you need to consider to reap all the benefits it offers. For example, website design is very crucial to impress your website visitors. Not just that, you also need to ensure that the website has original content and loads quickly.

Development

Development Ecommerce Open Source Website

How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website

Website Internet Internet Performance

How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. By doing this, China is also able to force people to use Chinese alternatives for websites. China does exactly that for blocking commonly known websites.

Website

Website Internet Internet Performance

How to prevent hidden images from loading on responsive designs

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Responsive design is an absolute necessity in today’s web. More users are visiting websites from their mobile devices than ever before , and if your website doesn’t look good on when viewed from that device, they’ll bounce. Plus, you’ll see a nice improvement in your mobile page speed scores !

Design

Design Media Mobile Website

Application vulnerabilities: Important lessons from the OWASP top 10 about application security risks

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

Broken access controls Broken access controls are when access is unintentionally provided to pages or sections of a website that should be secured. Insecure design This broad category refers to fundamental design flaws in the application caused by a failure to implement necessary security controls during the design stage.

Open Source

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Internet Internet

What is session replay? Discover user pain points with session recordings

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Session replay is an IT technology that creates anonymized video-like recordings of actions taken by users interacting with your website or mobile application. For example, the <body> element of your page exists on one branch of this tree structure, with any <img> assets branching off. What is session replay?

Mobile

Mobile Website Analytics Cache

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. 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.

Engineering

Engineering Google Website Analytics

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? For starters, they’re paying you a large sum of money to design the site.

Website

Website Servers Design Traffic

What are SLOs? How service-level objectives work with SLIs to deliver on SLAs

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For example, an SLA between a web host provider and customer can guarantee 99.95% uptime for all web services of a company over a year. For example, if the SLA for a website is 99.95% uptime, its corresponding SLO could be 99.95% availability of the login services. For example, if your SLO guarantees 99.5% What are SLOs?

Metrics

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure

How To Run A UX Audit For A Major EdTech Platform (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

The business world today is obsessed with user experience (UX) design. Overall, this UX audit and redesign concept would be of great use to UX designers, business owners, and marketing people because it presents a way to audit and fix a product’s most obvious usability issues. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Mark Lankmilier.

Education

Education Website Google Design

Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

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. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Want your web site to display more quickly?

Performance

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance

Responsive Design Dashboard

Speed Curve

APRIL 28, 2015

The dramatic growth of mobile traffic has created an urgency for websites to adapt to different screen sizes. Responsive design is the preferred technique for making web content adapt to the device on which it's viewed. A corollary to responsive design is the need for performance. Asset Breakpoints.

Design

Design Website Mobile Google

What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. Intelligence from chaos testing funnels back to developers who can implement design changes that make software more durable and improve production quality.

Engineering

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure

Dynatrace achieves AWS Machine Learning Competency as it continues to enable a new generation of automated enterprise cloud

Dynatrace

MARCH 10, 2021

The designation reflects AWS’ recognition that Dynatrace has demonstrated deep experience and proven customer success building AI-powered solutions on AWS. Consider the following example visualized in the chart below: A web app exhibits an anomaly, like a reduced response time (see top left in the graphic). Dynatrace news.

AWS

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence Innovation

Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Imagine, for example, that you test a prototype but discover that users are not interacting with the interface how they are supposed to. This is one example of the benefits of using eye-tracking. They used eye-tracking to measure visual attention on banners, animated graphics, and navigational tools in websites. Mariana Macedo.

Mobile

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media

Top Frontend Frameworks

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Frontend frameworks let you hit the ground running when developing a new website. Then again, a newer but less widely known framework may more effectively suit your needs, so it's worth it to get up to speed about today's most popular options. This is accomplished through the usage of the Material Design framework.

Google

Google Mobile Open Source Website

10 things I love about SpeedCurve (that I think you'll love, too)

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fight regressions and stay fast It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. Imagine that your website is a vault containing billions of dollars in jewels. Think of it this way.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring

Understand and replay iOS app crashes with Session Replay

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For example, if there’s an increase in the number of crashes in your app, Dynatrace will automatically create a problem that indicates the degree of severity and the affected users. Let’s take a detailed look at a few use cases and examples to better understand the value of this enhancement. Data protection by default.

Mobile

Mobile Tuning Monitoring Storage

Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time, they open a door to lots of concepts that might be overwhelming: PRPL, RAIL, Paint Timing API, TTI, HTTP/2, Speed Index, Priority Hints and more … Why Performance doesn’t get Prioritized Web performance at organizations is a real challenge. What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

Performance

Performance Speed Google Media

Optimizing Your Images Didn’t Improve Your Load Time? Here’s Why

MachMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2020

Optimizing your images is often the very first suggestion that any performance writer or consultant will make when it comes to optimizing a website. Make no mistake, this is a key step to take and should absolutely be a part of your web design/development routine. We’re no exception. Plugins may be congesting your site.

Speed

Speed Website Metrics Cache

Mobile browser testing – what is it and when is it done?

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The applications are designed using the same code base as Desktop like HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Unlike Native Applications, Mobile web applications do not have to be designed separately for IOS and Android. Example of such apps: We all are aware of how online shopping has taken over the world. What are Native Applications?

Mobile

Mobile Testing Website Internet

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Ensuring your website caches most of its assets for future uses has long been touted as essential for web performance. Going back to the example of visiting a home page and then going to an article page. Many sites don’t cache the HTML document itself, for example, and only the resources. Here’s an experiment for you.

Cache

Cache Games Performance Website

A wine tasting with a difference…automation and AI

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Premier Farnell echoed this but from a different perspective – a large portion of their business comes from their global eCommerce websites, but the shift in business meant there were more eyes on the digital presence than ever. An eCommerce leader in designer menswear. Nevertheless, increased agility cuts both ways.

Ecommerce

Ecommerce Retail Virtualization Innovation

Using SWR React Hooks With Next.js’ Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR)

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For some websites this works, but for others (such as Hack Club’s Scrapbook , a site built by @lachlanjc that I help maintain), the user expects the data to be kept up to date. The more interesting thing, however, is the impact on the speed of our side. When we measure speed through Lighthouse, we get a speed index of 1.5

Cache

Cache Internet Internet Servers

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00.

Website

Website Performance Google Media

Speed Matters talk at Auckland Web Dev Nights

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Why speed matters, examples of the impact saving a few seconds of load time has had on revenue and engagement. Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. How to make your website faster. The network constraints and what makes the web slow? Optimization tools and techniques. Performance Tools.

Speed

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile

To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The surest way to ignore such misalignment is by focusing exclusively on technical questions about AI model capabilities, divorced from the socio-economic environment in which these models will operate and be designed for profit. But it is far from alone.

Social Media

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics

Operationalizing Performance with Performance Budgets

Rigor

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to Tim Kadlec : A performance budget is a clearly defined limit on one or more performance metrics that the team agrees not to exceed and that is used to guide design and development. A website’s speed makes the difference in whether users visit a site or not, so performance matters a great deal.

Performance

Performance Metrics Website Speed

Top SEO Trends to Watch Out for in 2023

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With a carefully crafted SEO strategy, you can rank your website at the top of the search engine results for relevant keywords. For example, a pediatrician can speak with more authority about coughing in kids rather than a mere professional content writer. This is one of the SEO trends for 2023 to work upon.

Google

Google Traffic Social Media Website

The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example.

Monitoring

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet

Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The image was served from a separate assets domain (often bad for performance), but it wasn’t going to be possible to change that in the short term, and Smashing Magazine had already added a preconnect resource hint to speed that up as best they could. That way, the page includes everything necessary to do the initial paint without delays.

Google

Google Traffic Mobile Website

Key Advantages of DBMS for Efficient Data Management

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

It was initially designed to mitigate the limitations of file management systems, including slow operations, inadequate security, and substantial data redundancy. It comprises a collection of interrelated data and a set of software tools that aid in the access, processing, and management of data.

Efficiency

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability

Next.js Wildcard Subdomains

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

For example, if this was set on the domain smashingmagazine.com , apples.example.smashingmagazine.com and oranges.example.smashingmagazine.com would both return the above TXT value. This space can act as its own website — not tied to anything. For example, Netlify limits the feature to a select group of users on the Pro plan.

Servers

Servers Website Code Best Practices

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. For example, a WebSocket cannot have real-time performance when it needs to query the database every time there is a get request.

Performance

Performance Cache Servers Social Media

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web.

Code

Code Cache Retail Mobile

The psychology of site speed and human happiness

OKRs Examples for Software Companies

Trending Sources

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

7 Best Performance Testing Tools to Look Out for in 2021

Automatically Transforming And Optimizing Images And Videos On Your WordPress Website

Google planning a new ‘Badge of Shame’ for slow websites

Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

How PHP Web Development Beneficial For Online Business?

How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

How to prevent hidden images from loading on responsive designs

Application vulnerabilities: Important lessons from the OWASP top 10 about application security risks

What is session replay? Discover user pain points with session recordings

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes

What are SLOs? How service-level objectives work with SLIs to deliver on SLAs

How To Run A UX Audit For A Major EdTech Platform (Case Study)

Web Performance Bookshelf

Responsive Design Dashboard

What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace achieves AWS Machine Learning Competency as it continues to enable a new generation of automated enterprise cloud

Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Top Frontend Frameworks

10 things I love about SpeedCurve (that I think you'll love, too)

Understand and replay iOS app crashes with Session Replay

Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Optimizing Your Images Didn’t Improve Your Load Time? Here’s Why

Mobile browser testing – what is it and when is it done?

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

A wine tasting with a difference…automation and AI

Using SWR React Hooks With Next.js’ Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR)

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Speed Matters talk at Auckland Web Dev Nights

To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

Operationalizing Performance with Performance Budgets

Top SEO Trends to Watch Out for in 2023

The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study

Key Advantages of DBMS for Efficient Data Management

Next.js Wildcard Subdomains

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

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