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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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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. This had the effect of dramatically speeding up its performance and reducing support costs. Below is an example of a Dynatrace log and event viewer.

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Customer expectations for retail: Beyond digital experience

Dynatrace

While digital experience has many facets, transaction speed usually ranks among the most important. IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping. From first to lasting impressions But there’s more to digital experience than speed.

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Does Interaction to Next Paint actually correlate to user behavior?

Speed Curve

For the purposes of INP, an interaction is considered any of the following: Mouse click Touchscreen tap Key press INP is measured using the Event Timing API, which is supported in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Opera. Safari users currently account for roughly 20% of global traffic. Alas, there is no support for INP in Safari.

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How to Estimate Web Performance Impact Before Making Fixes

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It’s important to track these conversion events, and you can do it in your own system or leveraging tools like Google Analytics or Facebook Analytics. The best thing is that the effort is relatively low: Track the conversion event, which you might be doing already. Add an event with a performance metric category.

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NEW: RUM attribution and subparts for Interaction to Next Paint!

Speed Curve

This is still a viable option for all non-Chromium browsers – which, to be clear, is probably more than half of your traffic! Input delay As you can see in the illustration above, input delay measures from the time that the user interaction started (when the input was received) until the event handler is able to run.

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Sponsored Post: Etleap, PerfOps, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Stream, Scalyr

High Scalability

Fun and Informative Events. Advertise your event here! FlexBalancer makes it easy to manage traffic between multiple CDN providers, API’s, Databases or any custom endpoint helping you achieve better performance, ensure the availability of services and reduce vendor costs. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ).

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