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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 do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

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Achieving business resilience with modern observability, AI, and automation

Dynatrace

At the same time, cyber-events such as a zero-day vulnerability can easily penetrate an organization’s defenses. It enabled a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet if the device is running certain versions of Log4j 2. In December 2021, for example, the zero-day vulnerability Log4Shell emerged.

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Latency vs. Throughput: Navigating the Digital Highway

VoltDB

High latency feels like a sluggish internet connection, making online activities feel like a conversation with a delay in responses. Imagine the highway as your internet connection, and the vehicles on it are the data packets. Volt empowers enterprise-grade applications to act on event data before it loses its business value.

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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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Five ways cookie consent managers hurt web performance (and how to fix them)

Speed Curve

Unless you've been abstaining from the internet for the past several years, you know consent managers well. If you were just looking at metrics, the event timeline comparison below may be a bit of a head-scratcher. This is due to the functions called from the Event Handler. On websites, CMPs handle cookie popups.

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Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part II)

The Morning Paper

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. Event analysis. When forming hypotheses and evaluating diagnostic directions, use pattern matching of signals or symptoms to either specific past events or recent events.