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Re:Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno by hombre_fatal on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @12:06PM (#31909493)
I could see the 100ms/7% impact coming into play for a super impulsive shopper going from page to page compulsively until they pull the trigger on a product. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a lot of Amazon's business—people buying things they had not set out to buy.

Makes less sense the smaller an e-shop gets since the consumer already needed intent to shop there. If I know I already want product X on Shop Y today, 10 second load times are rather inconsequential.

Re:Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno by SwiftyBug on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @03:00PM (#31911658)
I've been thinking about that a lot lately. I have a medium-sized e-commerce. We sell hyper-customized products and, to be honest, the site's overall performance is not good. But when I looked into other stores in the same niche as ours, who are making a lot more money than us, I saw that their performance wasn't better than ours. I don't think people shop impulsively in our store because they have to customize the product and then make sure the customization is correct (it's a pretty complex customization). I believe that because the journey to checkout is so long and requires so much attention, the customers just don't give up due to high latency or slow responsiveness overall.