Notes on Website Speed Performance Article https://kinsta.com/learn/page-speed/
- Houston Airport Incident
- Elevators mirror keep us busy styling ourselves
- You got 3 seconds.
- “Tablet users on the other hand spend 20 percent more than desktop users.” We are shopping from the couch.
- “Web traffic and search engine ranking is primarily a vanity metric for website performance.” Ouch, says the girl with some SEO background.
- Interested in “Initial page speed”, pushing slow loading content to the back
- “website monitoring specialists Pingdom and GTMetrix yield valuable insights into website performance indicators for free, and programmatically generate scores and suggestions to educate non-geeky website owners.”
- Manju, have you tested our SRG sites on Pingdom? What are the results? How do we look statistically?
- But I don’t know what that means: “And it goes without saying, use future expire headers for images on the website core (.htaccess for Apache servers) to optimize image payload with server-side preprocessing.”
“For underperforming websites – notice underperformance being a relative term – page load times exceed human limitations, whereas failure to process user requests gives the false impression of ignorance or incompetence in delivering the desired response efficiently and accurately.
High-performing websites on the other hand – notice high-performing being a relative term as well – impact three parameters that determine user engagement: user feelings, user mental states and user interactions. These three aspects create an emotional, cognitive and behavioral connection between human visitors (can’t say much about bots!) and the website.”
