On Monday 21 Jan 2008, Dave Watts wrote:
On the other hand, to be successful, your application simply has to be no
slower than your competitors' while providing the same level of
functionality and reliability.
That's a very interesting take on it, cool.
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Tom Chiverton
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I kinda disagree on this.
For me, you only need to look at performance overall if you are slower
than your competitors, but that first hit should always be nice and
snappy. Once the user is looking at your site, they are less likely
to run off on the first slow page hit.
Neil
On Jan 21, 2008
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On Monday 21 Jan 2008, Dave Watts wrote:
On the other hand, to be successful, your
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I kinda disagree on this.
For me, you only need to look at performance overall if you
Speed is important in the CONTEXT of that experience but isn't the SUM
of
it. Usability is a huge, almost completely overlooked (by most
organizations) part of that: people will pay more, suffer lag and
accept
fewer features to work with a highly usable system.
I am willing to wait quite a bit
I agree with the 1 to 2 seconds on Broadband. I allow 10 seconds on my phone.
Its all to do with how long you think it *should* take.
I just though I would share with everyone a really interesting page on the
android website. http://code.google.com/android/toolbox/philosophy.html.
It
On Sunday 20 Jan 2008, Dave Francis wrote:
Slightly different scenario, but back in the days of big iron (CICS and
3270? terminals), IBM came up with a study that stated that anything over a
2sec response time caused anxiety in the user.
Different era.
Users are more used to waiting for things
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On Sunday 20 Jan 2008, Dave Francis wrote:
Slightly different scenario, but back in the
It's a pet peeve of mine (I'm not really talking about what
you said) but developer's really have to stop assuming that
people are as sophisticated as they are. More specifically
(and less arrogantly) they have to stop assuming that people
actually give a rat's ass about the stuff they
This is a great thread with very interesting inputs and I want to thank
everyone for that. Here's my take (not research result but more on 'gut'
instinct), different demographics may have a slightly different tolerant level
for page loading speed. The younger could be less tolerant of speed
4 seconds
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6131668.stm
Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts.
How many milliseconds should it take for a site's home
page to load?
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Seems like 4.2 seconds should have been the answer...
On Jan 21, 2008 2:58 PM, James Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
4 seconds
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6131668.stm
Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts.
How many milliseconds should it take for a site's home
page to
Normally I work to a rule of around 2 seconds perceived time before
stuff starts appearing on the page with everything else appearing in
the next two.
The thing with page loads aren't anything to do with ms duration in
CF, but the perception by the user. The user does give a t*ss what
Thanks for everyone's thoughts on around this topic. I
enjoyed reading your comments.
Incase anyone's interested I highly recommend Yahoo!'s
yslow: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
its a great tool for performance issues around this
topic. Right now my goal is to always have the site
I'm
Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts.
How many milliseconds should it take for a site's home
page to load?
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IIRC when Macromedia had launched their new website a few years ago
(Dylan I think they called it), they published a few articles that
described web-wide averages as well as their own targets (the research
they'd done during the planning phase). They hit their target of having
pages load
I believe users are generally okay with waiting a little longer
for pages that are returning data dynamically from a search for
example
Well, the kind of users who visited MM may be a good basis for that but the
average user doesn't know or care that there is a database even involved.
They
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Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts.
How many milliseconds should it take for a
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Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 5:06 AM
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IIRC when Macromedia had launched their new website a few years ago
(Dylan I think they
Slightly different scenario, but back in the days of big iron (CICS and
3270? terminals), IBM came up with a study that stated that anything over a
2sec response time caused anxiety in the user.
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