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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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Five ways cookie consent managers hurt web performance (and how to fix them)

Speed Curve

On websites, CMPs handle cookie popups. Unless you've been abstaining from the internet for the past several years, you know consent managers well. If you were just looking at metrics, the event timeline comparison below may be a bit of a head-scratcher. This is due to the functions called from the Event Handler.

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Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

CSS Wizardry

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

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How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics

Smashing Magazine

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. Progressive web applications (PWA) are still gathering popularity in 2020.

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Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Dotcom-Montior

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. It assists in identifying where important events happened during the loading process.

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Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Dotcom-Montior

Waterfall charts are diagrams which represent how website resources are being downloaded, parsed by the engine, in a timeline that gives us the opportunity to see the sequence and dependencies between resources. It assists in identifying where important events happened during the loading process. Test Location. Connection.

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Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

Smashing Magazine

Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. In this third edition of our web design done well series, we’re honing in on the beating heart of many websites: content. Speaking of the transformative powers of the internet, how about an interactive story.

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