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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

One of the more fundamental rules of building fast websites is to optimise your assets, and where text content such as HTML, CSS, and JS are concerned, we’re talking about compression. 21 years later, in 2013, Google launched Brotli, a new algorithm that claims even greater improvement than Gzip! decrease in file-size. Okay, yeah.

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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

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. Seat Pagine Gialle currently hosts over 100,000 websites while serving the needs of over 12.5 million unique visits.

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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 Websites. Even Faster Websites. How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. Want your web site to display more quickly?

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Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition)

Smashing Magazine

If you’re already familiar with the HTMHell website, then you can guess how interesting its advent calendar is going to get! Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. Accessible websites are simply better websites. Mark Fowler’s website. 24 Pull Requests” on GitHub.

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Gzip vs Brotli – Best Browser Compression

MachMetrics

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts. Let us know what page speed benefits you notice after implementing HTTP compression!

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