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Downtime vs slowtime: Which costs you more?

Speed Curve

Some of you may remember the Amazon outage of 2013, when the retail behemoth went down for 40 minutes. But if a website or app is consistently laggy (read: many popular media sites), eventually, you just sort of drift away. According to the same survey, website slowdowns occurred 10X more frequently than outages.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

The Lamborghini website was being hosted on outdated infrastructure when the company decided to boost their online presence to coincide with the launch of their Aventador J sports car. The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners in Hong Kong help customers migrate to the cloud.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

Time is a crucial usability factor If you don't consider time a crucial usability factor, you're missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience I'm embarrassed to admit that, in my previous career as a usability tester, I spent years testing websites in lab conditions. It never crossed my mind to take rendering time into consideration.

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How To Choose a Website Builder For Your Web Development Company?

Official Blog - World Web Technology

You’ll require the knowledge of creating a new website to avoid the hassle of learning. You can make a great website without coding or advanced web design skills. A website builder is an alternative. Anyone can use a good website builder, even if they don’t know web design. The news is positive.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.”