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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. But it comes with caveats.

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

Dynatrace

Continuously monitor applications in runtime for known vulnerabilities and prioritize patching based on criticality: for example, adjacency to the internet and/or critical data. Continuously monitor environments for vulnerabilities in runtime.

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Email Infrastructure Monitoring Checklist

Dotcom-Montior

While you have limited control over user interaction with your emails, monitoring email infrastructure is in your hands. And to make sure your email infrastructure is in perfect working order, you need to constantly monitor it. A mail server is a server that takes control of and routes email on the internet. Mail Server.

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The Importance of Monitoring SSL Certificates

Dotcom-Montior

Usage. This monitors certificate usage to verify that intermediate certificates are not misused. . The aim is to deliver content on the internet in a faster and smoother way. CDNs essentially act as the backbone for high speed internet content delivery and performance. Why SSL Certificate Monitoring is Helpful.

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Why speed test results are different than your load times

MachMetrics

You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Perhaps you feel like your site loads fairly quickly, but the speed test results are sub-optimal. Outside factors may be affecting your speed test results. Tell me if you’ve experienced this before.

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