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User Experience Plays a Critical Role in Web Performance

Time and time again, studies indicate that faster websites produce greater revenue. All too often, the approach toward increasing the speed of a site is seen as only a “technical challenge” that requires new hardware, better search algorithms and so forth. Often overlooked is the importance of having an efficient and effective user experience .At Velocity 2010 Stoyan Stefanov, a performance engineer at Yahoo! and architect of YSlow 2.0 , gave a talk on the Psychology…

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Velocity Conference 2010: Wrap-Up

If there is any question whether web performance and web operations is hot, you need only look at the attendance and interest in this year’s O’Reilly Velocity conference. We’re told that the total attendance topped 1,200 — which is more than both previous years combined. In its third year, Velocity is quickly becoming a must for any web-based company. Below, I will attempt to summarize the general themes from this year’s conference, and point out the most important trends/tools/news….

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