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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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Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Dotcom-Montior

Load Time Details For Individual Elements : In the waterfall chart, when the user moves their cursor on a specific bar, he is shown a load time details which are DnsTime, ConnectTime, SSLTime, RequestTime, FirstByteTime, ResponseTime, StartTime, EndTime, Speed which is pointed in a red oval. If there are too many 302 redirects.

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Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts

Dotcom-Montior

Load Time Details For Individual Elements : In the waterfall chart, when the user move his cursor on a specific bar, he is shown a load time details which are DnsTime, ConnectTime, SSLTime, RequestTime, FirstByteTime, ResponseTime, StartTime, EndTime, Speed which is pointed in a red oval. How to Make Websites Load Faster.

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances. Quantitative performance testing looks at metrics like response time while qualitative testing is concerned with scalability, stability, and interoperability.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

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The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

Dotcom-Montior

The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet. One can only download apps using the manufacturer’s downloader software, where VPN installers and other banned apps are not available for installation. IP Blocking.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform.

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