Peter Rozek gave a presentation at WebTechCon 2015 about performance and user experience. Some of the key points from the presentation include:
- Slow page loads can cause 40% of users to abandon a site. Decreasing load times by 4 seconds for one site led to a 25% increase in page views.
- Performance needs to be considered from the beginning of a project in the concept and design phases, not just in development. It is important to set performance budgets and priorities.
- Users' perception of speed depends on how quickly a page is interactive, not just how long it takes to fully load. The goal should be for above-the-fold content to be usable within 1 second.
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