Tag: web performance
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Why Cloudflare’s Temporary Outage Shook the Internet—and What It Means
Overview: A Glitch that Affected the Global Internet In a rare event that rippled across the digital world, Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure provider, experienced a significant outage on a Tuesday morning. The disruption, lasting several hours, caused wide-reaching effects on consumer-facing services such as ChatGPT, Spotify, and the social platform X. While some users…
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Website Loading Animations Work Best At Mid-Range Speeds: Stanford Study
What the Stanford study tested When a user is staring at a loading screen, the pace of the animation can shape how quickly time feels to pass. A recent study from Stanford examined how different speeds of website loading animations affect user perception and behavior during waits. Rather than the fastest or the slowest options,…