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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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Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

CSS Wizardry

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018

High Scalability

sapessi : Lambda simplifies concurrency at the frontend, enforcing one event per function at a time. However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B). 5% might not sound like much, but it’s a huge figure when you consider that many VM optimisations aim to speed things up by 1% at most. Just a few more quotes.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 29th, 2018

High Scalability

200TB : GitLab Git data; $100 Billion : Instagram; ~250k : Walmart peak events per second; 10x : data from upgraded Large Hadron Collider; 3mm : smallest computer; 9.9 jedberg : Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon. They'll love you even more. Don't stop here.

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How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics

Smashing Magazine

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

For example, a billion dollar scale Internet Marketing company is using Greenplum advanced analytics to perform audience profiling to understand who their audience is, what they buy, which networks and devices they use, and where they are geographically located so they can better understand and serve their market.

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