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Useful Website Performance Metrics

Friday, Apr 17, 2015
Performance is one of our key goals in any web project. It’s also something we think we’re pretty good at, and we use it as a selling point for our services. However, it can be something that’s tricky to measure objectively, despite the fact that it’s almost universally acknowledged that page load speed is one of the most significant drivers of user satisfaction (see this nice infographic by Kissmetrics). Page load speed, of course, can vary enormously even for a single page depending on factors such as the device and browser used, the location of the user and server, caching performance and the amount of traffic on the server, to name a few. ...