I'm pretty sure Amazon mostly cares about above the fold latency, because that's what most effects how you experience the page.
On my laptop, it's only about 4 seconds before all the above the fold content renders.
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On my laptop, it's only about 4 seconds before all the above the fold content renders.
There are too many products where value comes from building a lifelong relationship with the customer, rather than directing a single purchase. That's stuff only branding can do.
Here's Steve Jobs talking about the challenges with Apple TV and it's go-to-market strategy: http://youtu.be/-pSfOKMEbG0?t=31s
This says people spend an average of 40 minutes per day on Facebook: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/23/facebook-usage-time/
I can't find quite the same statistic for Google, but this says 22 billion minutes / 47 million vistors / month, which is about 15 minutes. Of which 60-some percent is YouTube. http://mediatel.co.uk/newsline/2014/08/07/22-billion-minutes...
Now thats two different countries, but I suspect the numbers are pretty similar.
And Google is not 3M. They have not proven to any significant degree that any of their research projects will provide lasting value to the company. In fact, almost all of their successful non-search products were acquisitions, not the result of internal R&D. Android was an acquisition; Maps was an acquisition; Docs was an acquisition.