The Billion Dollar HTML Tag

[...] For Google, increasing speed was worth a billion, according to Data Center Knowledge: [...]

robot makes music

Posted June 24th, 2009

Wow. That… really sad considering how much slower other search engines were compared to google. I mean, if they conducted 25% fewer searches, did they just decide that finding their thing wasn’t worth it?

I think it also describes a sad lack of determination in folk in our society. If you’re page takes .4 seconds longer to load and that’s just too much for you to take, I mean, how could you possibly even pay attention to a short-attention-span theatre like Robot Chicken?

Rich Miller

Posted June 24th, 2009

In the Q&A Mayer was asked whether the dropoff in usage was because users found the best result on their first screen and thus didn’t need to look for results 31-60. She said this occurred to them and they dug deeper and found that the subset of users seeing 30 results were not just seeing fewer pages – they were actually returning to Google less often. I think this occurred to lots of folks. After all, for 30 results Google displays three pages of ads with a limit of 10, and just one page of ads with a limit of 30 results. Nonetheless, Mayer said the longer page load was apparentlyy causing some users to go elsewhere.

[...] Rich Miller’s post on the keynote [...]

cak

Posted June 24th, 2009

No marcus, you are the first one in the world to study first year statistics, nobody else, on the entire planet has ever thought of tailoring their experiment to rule out causation. Thanks for sharing your deep thoughts with us… what is next you are going to solve middle east crisis by suggesting they should all just be friends? I can’t wait.

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social networking software

Posted July 6th, 2009

load times have always been important.
important for seo, bounce rate…
great info btw

[...] Bien évidemment, Google ne fait pas tout ça par pure charité ; plus notre connexion Internet sera rapide, plus Google gagnera d’argent. Mais c’est une entreprise obsédée par la vitesse, et dont les ingénieurs sont constamment à la recherche de nouveaux moyens de propulser le contenu Google dans nos maisons. La pluart de ses choix en matière de design ont d’ailleurs été faits en prenant en compte ce paramètre. Pourquoi lorsqu’on effectue une recherche, la première page n’affiche que 10 résultats, et pas 20, ou bien 30 ? Parce que sinon, ça augmenterait d’une demi-seconde le temps de chargement de chaque recherche. Une demi-seconde c’est peut-être un détail pour vous, mais selon les tests effectués par Google, les gens chez qui on affichait 30 résultats au lieu de 10 faisaient 25% de recherches en moins. [...]

[...] tatsächlich auf dessen Umsatz auswirken? Marissa Mayer erklärt am Beispiel Google, wie sehr die Antwort auf diese Frage mit einem Ja zu beantworten ist. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page asked Mayer to assess [...]