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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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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. All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site.

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Measuring Network Performance in Mobile Safari

CSS Wizardry

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. Why This Is a Problem.

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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. Things have changed quite a bit over the last decade when we just started exploring what we could do on a tiny, shiny mobile screen. State Of Mobile 2021. Kelvin Omereshone. Large preview ).

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4 Most Common Page Speed Testing Mistakes

MachMetrics

Using a page speed optimization audit tool like GTmetrix or WebPageTest is a great first step towards assessing how your website loads for visitors. However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. Mistake #1: Only Testing Desktop.

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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. Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives.

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

Dynatrace

Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. trillion by 2027, up from $800 billion in 2021.