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PERFORMANCE FTW Why your website performance is such a priority Enrico Foschi Front End Lead @ SkillPages skillpages.com/enrico.foschi - @enricofoschi

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A quick presentation highlighting the importance of website performance.

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PERFORMANCE FTW

Why your website performance is such a priority

Enrico Foschi – Front End Lead @ SkillPages

skillpages.com/enrico.foschi - @enricofoschi

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Performance is priority

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Performance has a number of

implications(very important ones)

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“Google penalizes slow websites”Random Google guy @ Velocity Conference 2011

“And performance is one of the main criteria on SEO ranking”Random Google guy #2 next to Random Google guy @ Velocity Conference 2011

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Slow websitesSUCK!!

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Chicks dig fast

websites!(and users too)

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FASTER WEBSITEmeans

MORE USERS

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I WANT DATA!

(and you’re right)

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“75% people do not return to a website that takes more than 4 seconds to load”study from Akamai

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Users tolerance of page load time (in s)study from University of Nebraska

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Some interesting facts...

If the website loads in 3 instead of 2 seconds, you risk to lose up to 40% of visitors.Akamai

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Some interesting facts...

For every 100ms increase in load time of amazon.com decreased sales by 1%.Kohavi and Longbotham 2007

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400ms slower page would see 5-9% more people leave before the page finished loading. Yahoo! Study on Yahoo! homepage

Some interesting facts...

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A change from loading a 10-result page in 0.4 seconds to a 30-result page loading in 0.9 seconds decreased traffic and ad revenues by 20%.Linden 2006

Some interesting facts...

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20% LESS REVENUE!(damn, this user are really fussy!)

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And it’s all about SURVIVAL

So, YES!

Performance

IS priority!

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WHAT NOW?

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Step #1

MEASURE

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Step #2

IMPROVElow hanging fruits first – don’t reinvent the well

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Step #3

MONITOR

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Enrico Foschi – http://skillpages.com/enrico.foschi - @enricofoschi