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

Dotcom-Montior

In fact, every country has its own laws and rules toward this virtual world. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

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

Dotcom-Montior

In fact, every country has its own laws and rules toward this virtual world. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52
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What Does My Website Look Like From China? Test and Monitor Performance from China

Dotcom-Montior

In fact, every country has its own laws and rules toward this virtual world. If you plan to do business online with China, its Internet infrastructure and the Great Firewall might greatly impact your website performance. Why Should You Monitor Your Website Performance?

Website 52
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Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

Regardless of how much the CSS codebase has been improved during the refactoring process and how much more maintainable and extendable it is, the final stylesheet needs to be optimized for the best possible performance and least possible file size. After all, users won’t wait around forever for the website to load.

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Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting

Smashing Magazine

JavaScript’s effect on performance consists of download, parsing and the execution costs. Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. How quickly the file is downloaded depends on the connection speed and the size of the file itself. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

However, as long as there is no established endorsement of the performance culture, each decision will turn into a battlefield of departments, breaking up the organization into silos. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!), Start Render time, Speed Index ).