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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. Slow websites are just one problem, but for those of us who spend much of our work and personal time online, slow sites creates extra friction in an already friction-filled world. Below is a photo of one of the study participants.)

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

An author , an educator , and a speaker , Max is an independent consultant in the mobile and web space. His most recent book, Hacking Web Performance , walks the reader through improving performance from initial load and data transfer to resource loading and the overall user experience. Maximiliano Firtman. Addy Osmani.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. More after jump!

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How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps

Smashing Magazine

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features. More after jump! The Builder.io

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An In-Depth Guide To Measuring Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

The fact that RUM data is used, is an important distinction because some of these metrics (FID excepted) are available in synthetic or “lab-based” web performance tools like Lighthouse that have been the staple of web performance monitoring for many in the past. At the top is the big Lighthouse performance score out of 100.

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What Does My Website Look Like From China? Test and Monitor Performance from China

Dotcom-Montior

In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. With the networks all around the world, theoretically, you can do business boundlessly. However, like each country has its boundary, the world of Internet is not a world without any control.

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