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The Cost of Poor Web Performance

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Irony of ironies: I can't even load this page since the server is overwhelmed from HN traffic.

Woah, looks like you're right. Didn't see it at first but it definitely doesn't seem to be loading now.

I thought it wasn't irony, but rather the actual message.

Yeah! See everyone, this guy got it...

I don't get the presidential part. Lots of statements about response time being better, then the guy with nearly double the load time won the election? Not that I'm arguing against page speed, just found that odd in the info graphic..

Also, it wouldn't hurt to perfect your load times! http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=h... 54/100 mobile & 77/100 desktop when I tested it

Guessing in the dark from someone who didn't follow the US election -

Maybe Romney's campaign was doing better than Obama's three weeks before the vote?

I do agree though, the presidential thing sounds confused.

They are somewhat confused. In the Amazon section, they write "A 1-SECOND DECREASE IN AMAZON'S PAGE LOAD TIME WOULD ANNUALLY COST [...]" instead of "increase".

Unreacheable, talk about irony.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.s...

Back in the days I used Opera Mobile for surfing on the phone, when there were no data-plans or 3G/4G as there is now. A compressed page with pictures were just a few kBs, and loaded fairly quick.

But now, since the mobile net is so fast, there's little optimization done for mobile other than layout. Loading the largest newspaper in my country's mobile version is a whopping 1.5MBs with all the pictures. 2.7MB in normal. I think this is sad.

I think a lot of this has to do with the introduction of retina displays, images seem to take up a lot.

I really wish for a browser that let's me nicely disable js, cookies, images etc per domain easily on Android.

I was under the impression part of that is because of how Opera Mobile worked, they have some kinda "Turbo" mode that compressed websites and reduced downloading times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mobile

Including caching of optimized content.

Which played hell with the localization logic for many sites.

Direct link since page is down: http://blog.smartbear.com/wp-content/uploads/imports/poor-we...

http://imgur.com/QDEAPuK

Well this is embarrassing, but the irony is not lost on us: http://imgur.com/Miokv4f

Like a train-wreck happening, meme usage also 'incorrect', red indicates the 'positive' part of, blue the awkward juxtaposition.

It's usually the opposite. Red = bad/wrong/stop, Green/Blue = good/right/go.

I'm pretty sure you inverted those.

is back now

I've just left my current mobile phone provider (Vodafone) because of the continual problems with their website. Throughout the call to request my PAC (unlock) code every employee I spoke with didn't believe me when I said that I wanted to leave because of their site. I was offered increasingly more desperate financial 'offers' without acknowledgement of my actual complaint. Some big business' still don't relate web performance with user happiness - disappointing.

Interesting blip in the "Conversion Rates by page load time" graph. Wonder what the reason is for the conversion rate for 0-1 seconds being markedly lower than 1-2, 2-3, and 3-4?

Also, that graph really irks me. Not enough contrast, poor layout, and confusing axis labels which depend upon color. Also, is the 0.025 on the y-axis a percentage or a decimal (I think it means 2.5% conversion rate?)

I really wish you wouldn't disable pinch to zoom on your website. The text on the info graphic was far too small to read.

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