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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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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Smashing Magazine

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic.

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Mobile Page Speed Testing

MachMetrics

Mobile use surpassed desktop use years ago, but all too often websites are still being built desktop first and mobile second. In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make! All of these things can be achieved with a faster mobile speed. Test Your Mobile Speed!

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. Since implementing these changes, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the performance of websites built and hosted on our platform.

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PageSpeed Module: Dramatically Increase the Speed of Your Website Automatically

MachMetrics

The way a website is constructed can have a major impact on website speed performance, but developers often have a hard time keeping track of factors that cause slow page loads and other speed-related issues. Good website performance is part of that equation. PageSpeed is an open source project.

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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China

Dotcom-Montior

It’s a complex architecture with multiple layers of controlled tricks to block access to websites. It’s designed in such a way that you won’t even notice if the website has been blocked. For example, if you land on a website that is blocked, you won’t see any warning or information regarding that. Pair with a local CDN.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Web Performance Daybook-Volume-2. Web Performance In Action.