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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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Real-World Effectiveness of Brotli

CSS Wizardry

21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! Put another way, file-size savings help you to cram data into lower bandwidth, but if you’re latency-bound, the speed at which those admittedly fewer chunks of data arrive will not change. decrease in file-size.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

## References I've reproduced the talk references below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency? Ford, et al., “TCP

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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SEO and web performance: What to measure and how to optimize

Speed Curve

Chances are, you're here because of Google's update to its search algorithm , which affects both desktop and mobile, and which includes Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. If you're new to Core Web Vitals , this is a Google initiative that was launched in early 2020. When Google talks, people listen.

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What is OpenShift? And how to make OpenShift monitoring easy

Dynatrace

Self-hosted Kubernetes installations or services — such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or the Google Kubernetes Engine — make it possible for enterprises to select and implement best-fit functions. Speeds up development. It also protects your development infrastructure at scale with enterprise-grade security. OpenShift 3.0

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Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

When I worked in-house at Shopify in 2013, themes were fairly simple in terms of code complexity. Our themes had pretty good speed scores for how much they offered, but they were undoubtedly bloated. Desktop home page speeds (with heavy elements like multiple videos, featured products, slideshows with large images).