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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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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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10 digital experience monitoring best practices

Dynatrace

They collect data from multiple sources through real user monitoring , synthetic monitoring, network monitoring, and application performance monitoring systems. Speed index. DEM solutions monitor and analyze the quality of digital experiences for users across digital channels. Visually complete. HTML downloaded. Load event end.

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

Smashing Magazine

Google Lighthouse is merely one tool in a complete performance toolkit. 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.

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

Dotcom-Montior

For example, if you land on a website that is blocked, you won’t see any warning or information regarding that. Instead, you will encounter forever loading and other messages like timeout, connection error, network problem, etc. Monitor your website speed from China. Deep Packet Inspection. Resetting Connections.

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How to Get Ready for Google’s Speed Update

Rigor

Google recently announced the launch of their Speed Update. This change to how Google ranks websites for searches will now take mobile page speed into account in its ranking algorithm. This announcement is part of a Google’s ongoing efforts to incentivize good web performance. Prioritize Performance Improvements.

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