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Re:The Fastest Blog in the World by thenomad on Monday August 03, 2015 @08:55AM (#9995368)
"On top of that I suspect (but can't prove) that a faster site will lead to people viewing more pages on that same site simply because of the convenience."

I'm reasonably sure that this theory is backed up by data. I don't have the time to look up the studies just now, but as someone with a professional interest in this, I'm pretty sure I've seen them in the past.

Certainly, page speed has a surprisingly large impact on overall user experience - backed up by studies like Amazon's and Google's, both of which showed a correlation between faster page load and increased user activity.

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Re:The Fastest Blog in the World by keyboardwarrior on Monday August 03, 2015 @09:58AM (#9995818)
IBM did a study on this, i think they call it the doherty treshold, or maybe just the show "halt and catch fire".

it assumes that anything under 400ms response can add to the addictiveness of a user interface.

http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/evrrt.html

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Re:The Fastest Blog in the World by pantalaimon on Monday August 03, 2015 @09:50AM (#9995746)
Just an anecdotal evidence, I open fefe's blog (http://blog.fefe.de/), which is quite popular in the German hacker scene, several times a day, often just to check whether the data connection is working, since it's so basic and loads instantly.
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