Dries Buytaert

Faster is better

Through a presentation from Nicole Sullivan, a former member of Yahoo's Exceptional Performance Team and co-author of O'Reilly's upcoming book on performance optimization, I came across the following data points:

While we all knew this was true (and while I'd like more detail on these tests), it is nice to have some quantitative data from different sources. Long story short: even the smallest delay kills user satisfaction. (Hat tip: Peter Van Dijck)

— Dries Buytaert