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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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Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Dotcom-Montior

It assists in identifying where important events happened during the loading process. They can also let the user easily see how good or bad the performance of their website is, showing you exactly what is slowing down your site. If your website isn’t fast enough, the user will not wait for it to finish loading.

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Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Dotcom-Montior

It assists in identifying where important events happened during the loading process. They can also let the user easily see how good or bad the performance of their website is, showing you exactly what is slowing down your site. Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…). Test Location. Connection.

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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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Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting

Smashing Magazine

Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. How quickly the file is downloaded depends on the connection speed and the size of the file itself. Website performance is not consistent across devices. import("path/to/myFunction.js").then((myFunction) Large preview ).

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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!), You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.