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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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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 14th, 2018

High Scalability

Going back we had two dedicated 1,200-baud lines: high-speed lines at the time. ” - CEO of Adobe ($ADBE), which has gained 793% since moving Photoshop etc to a subscription-based service from a one-time software sale in 2011. Cables of course going down into the room at both ends. That was our video link. Homemade modems.

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JavaScript growth and third parties

Speed Curve

Ten years ago it was network bottlenecks, but the growth of JavaScript has outpaced network and CPU improvements on today's devices. In the chart below, based on an analysis from the HTTP Archive , we see the number of requests has increased for both first and third party JavaScript since 2011. million sites tested on desktop.)

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5G Will Definitely Make the Web Slower, Maybe

CSS - Tricks

as it matures 5G is predicted to improve network speeds dramatically. Carriers are predicting download speeds in 2019 for anywhere from 100Mb to 1 Gbit per second on average. But Scott continues: Faster networks should fix our performance problems, but so far, they have had an interesting if unintentional impact on the web.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 01 March 2011 10:00 PM. Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Comments ().

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2011 01:40 PM. AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. Comments ().

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