Something that you already know: Website speed is expected
This is a great article from today's NY times about how website speed is expected nowadays. It has some interesting statistics and quotes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/technology/impatient-web-users-flee-sl...
A couple of quotes:
These days, even 400 milliseconds — literally the blink of an eye — is too long, as Google engineers have discovered. That barely perceptible delay causes people to search less.
People will visit a Web site less often if it is slower than a close competitor by more than 250 milliseconds (a millisecond is a thousandth of a second).
“Two hundred fifty milliseconds, either slower or faster, is close to the magic number now for competitive advantage on the Web,” said Harry Shum, a computer scientist and speed specialist at Microsoft.
Anyway, no real question here. Just figured I would share since I assume most group members would be interested :)
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Google is using site speed as a factor in search rankings
It's no surprise that site speed offers visitors a better experience, but Google just announced that site speed is now a factor in search rankings. I think this has actually been true for some time, but it's worth mentioning here. This is definitely another feather in the hats of performance specialists who offer high performance tuning services to their clients.
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