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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. Is that fair?

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Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks? For example, optimizing resource utilization for greater scale and lower cost and driving insights to increase adoption of cloud-native serverless services.

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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. for the vast minority of sessions.

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

MachMetrics

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. With its search engine being easily the most used on the internet, Google has an incredible influence on the web. A thread on Reddit provided many examples of the initial concerns.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. The growing amount of data processed at the network edge, where failures are more difficult to prevent, magnifies complexity. However, cloud complexity has made software delivery challenging.

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How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking

CSS - Tricks

In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Speed Index.

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Understanding the performance impact of anti-flicker snippets

Speed Curve

Experimentation tools that use asynchronous scripts – such as Google Optimize, Adobe Target, and Visual Web Optimizer – recommend using an anti-flicker snippet to hide the page until they've finished executing. Google Optimize) has finished applying its experiments. In Google Optimize's default case is the whole document.