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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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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

Smashing Magazine

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult.

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Why Web Developers Choose PHP For Great Website Development?

Official Blog - World Web Technology

Choosing the correct programming language for web development is critical for producing outstanding websites. PHP is a language that has weathered the test of time and is still frequently used by web developers. Web developers choose PHP for significant website development due to several reasons.

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Why Page Speed Scores can be Dangerous

MachMetrics

All of the popular speed testing tools typically provide a page speed score along with their objective results. Google PageSpeed Insights has a their “Speed Score.” While these do have a purpose, most people use them incorrectly, in a way that can be dangerous to your real site speed. seconds to.27

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018

High Scalability

JoeEmison : Lies that developers tell (themselves): (1) This is the best stack/IaaS for us to use [reality: I know it and want to start now] (2) DevOps doesn’t matter until scaling [you’ll spend 30% of your time dealing with ops then] (3) We’ll just rebuild it if we get traction [hahahaha]. They'll love you even more.

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SKP's Java/Java EE Gotchas: Clash of the Titans, C++ vs. Java!

DZone

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. These include Python, PHP, Perl, and Ruby.

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

Dynatrace

Application vulnerabilities are an inevitable byproduct of the growth of agile development techniques and can be tricky to spot and address. While these vulnerabilities aren’t anything new, the modular and distributed nature of modern software development introduces a new potential for application security risks.