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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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Why Optimizing Your Lighthouse Score Is Not Enough For A Fast Website

Smashing Magazine

What it’s not is a complete picture of how your website performs in the real world. Sure, we can glean plenty of insights about a site’s performance and even spot issues that ought to be addressed to speed things up. You know how there’s a setting to “throttle” the internet connection speed?

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10 digital experience monitoring best practices

Dynatrace

Define monitoring goals and user experience metrics Next, define what aspects of a digital experience you want to monitor and improve — such as website performance, application responsiveness, or user engagement — and prioritize what to measure for each application. Speed index. Visually complete. HTML downloaded.

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Speed Up Your Laravel Website With Performance Optimization Tips

DZone

Website performance is critical to any web application, as it directly affects the user experience, page load times, and scalability. Developers widely use it to build high-performance web applications. For example, slow page load times can lead to increased bounce rates, lower conversion rates, and poor user engagement.

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Best Web Performance Books to Learn Site Speed Optimization

MachMetrics

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge For Front-End Engineers. If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, Let’s get started!

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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.

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