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Studies have shown that is not the case.
Amazon found that every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales. Google found that 400 milliseconds means a nearly 0.5% decrease in search sessions.
So yes, a 5% speedup in an application could be an enormous win for a company.
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Studies have shown that is not the case.
Amazon found that every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales. Google found that 400 milliseconds means a nearly 0.5% decrease in search sessions.
So yes, a 5% speedup in an application could be an enormous win for a company.