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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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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. Some participants experienced normal speeds, while others experienced load times that were artificially throttled with a 500-millisecond network delay. Either way, you end up stranded on the side of the road.

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

All Things Distributed

Some of the largest enterprises and public sector organizations in Italy are using AWS to build innovations and power their businesses, drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time-to-market. To meet such large traffic numbers, they need a technology infrastructure that is secure, reliable, and flexible.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

In 2013, AWS launched the AWS Activate program to provide Nordic startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts. Vivino also uses Auto Scaling to deal with the large seasonal fluctuations in traffic. Today, we add to that presence with an infrastructure Region in Stockholm with three Availability Zones.

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

Speed Curve

But Google's prioritization of page speed in search ranking isn't new, even for mobile. As far back as 2013, Google announced that pages that load slowly on mobile devices would be penalized in mobile search. Google engineer Addy Osmani recently did a great talk about image optimization at Smashing Meets for Speed.

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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

This reconfirms observations from the HTTP Archive , published by Steve Souders in 2013. Having worked on browsers for more than a decade, I think it would be shocking if a browser team agreed to more than 10 MiB for a feature like this, especially if it won't dramatically speed up the majority of existing websites.

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Why and When Should Businesses invest in Mobile Automation Testing?

Testsigma

Mobile app testing uses many mobile automation testing techniques to ensure that they are ideal and perform well in various traffic conditions. Manual testing gets boring and repetitive and automation can increase the speed and also reduces the human error. When there is a high traffic. Saves expenses. For cost reduction.

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