It seemed to you! All about Perceived Performance

Is this a fast, convenient and responsive site? Perhaps this is not the result of the fruitful work of many people, but just a set of psychological and engineering tricks aimed at improving Perceived Performance.





In most cases, as real performance increases, so does Perceived Performance. And when the actual performance cannot be easily increased, there is an opportunity to increase the apparent performance. In his speech at Frontend Live 2020, former Avito Frontend Architecture developer Alexey Okhrimenko spoke about techniques that improve the feeling of speed where it is no longer possible to accelerate.





Performance is a must for the success of modern Web applications. There are a lot of studies from Amazon and Google that say that performance degradation is directly proportional to the loss of money and leads to poor satisfaction with your services (which again makes you lose money).





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