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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Speed Matters When Measuring Responsive Web Design Performance Load Times","summary" : "In the mobile world, every second matters. Mobile users are a finicky bunch. They want their information anytime, anywhere and quickly. As members of the MobileGov Community of Practice have noted last year, mobile user experience is about emotion. If that emotion is not happy, you will lose the user. For this month’s DigitalGov user","date" : "2014-11-18T10:00:48-04:00","date_modified" : "2024-04-02T09:45:13-04:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/cm-topics-button-component/content/news/2014/11/2014-11-18-trends-on-tuesday-speed-matters-when-measuring-responsive-web-design-performance-load-times.md","slug" : "trends-on-tuesday-speed-matters-when-measuring-responsive-web-design-performance-load-times","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2014/11/18/trends-on-tuesday-speed-matters-when-measuring-responsive-web-design-performance-load-times/","content" :"\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/11/600-x-330-Slow-Connection-Speed-Internet-Jrcasas-iStock-Thinkstock-164483907.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Slow Connection Speed Internet\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the mobile world, every second matters.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMobile users are a finicky bunch. They want their information \u003ca href=\"http://www.alistapart.com/article/improving-ux-through-front-end-performance\" title=\"Improving UX Through Front-End Performance\"\u003eanytime, anywhere and quickly\u003c/a\u003e. As members of the \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/communities/\" title=\"MobileGov Community of Practice\"\u003eMobileGov Community of Practice\u003c/a\u003e have noted last year, mobile \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EurlOmfLcPA\u0026amp;list=PLd9b-GuOJ3nFDk4DNmWy1iQhSUyEH-AKU\u0026amp;index=8\" title=\"You'll Have Them at Swipe: Make An Awesome Mobile User Experience\"\u003euser experience is about emotion\u003c/a\u003e. If that emotion is not happy, you will lose the user. For this month’s \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2014/11/07/welcome-to-user-experience-month/\" title=\"Welcome to User Experience Month!\"\u003eDigitalGov user experience\u003c/a\u003e theme, we decided to talk about how speed can be a key to a user’s happiness.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrivate sector organizations know with every second they reduce a website’s load time, their sales increase. For example, see how sophisticated the private sector gets when it comes to delivering your pizza. According to Jeremy Vanderlan, the Technical Deputy for AIDS.gov, the industry benchmark/average load time is 3-4 seconds.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs agencies are building responsive websites, they are taking load time seriously. AIDS.gov \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/cm-topics-button-component/2012/07/11/aids-gov-responsive-design/\" title=\"AIDS.gov Responsive Design\"\u003ehas had a responsive site for years\u003c/a\u003e now and Vanderlan has become an expert at measuring and testing loadtime.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring last month’s \u003ca href=\"\n\" title=\"Measuring Responsive Web Design Performance: October Mobile Gov Around the Horn Call\"\u003eMobileGov Around the Horn Call\u003c/a\u003e, Vanderlan laid out why performance testing is important for government, how they approach the testing and some tools agencies use for testing. You can hear the whole conversation I had with him in the video below.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td3bxpioQrg\u0026amp;w=600]\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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