F-Shaped Pattern of Reading on the Web: Misunderstood, But Still Relevant (Even on Mobile)
Eleven years after discovering the F-shaped reading pattern, we revisit what it means today.| Nielsen Norman Group
Eleven years after discovering the F-shaped reading pattern, we revisit what it means today.| Nielsen Norman Group
Performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. We set a time budget of less than 5 seconds first-load Time-to-Interactive and less than two seconds for subsequent loads. We further constrain ourselves to a baseline device and network configuration to measure progress. 2017's global baseline is a ~$200 Andro...| Infrequently Noted
JavaScript powers the modern web, enabling rich and interactive web applications. In this report we dive into how JavaScript is used on the web, and its adoption and trends both for mobile and desktop experiences.| httparchive.org
We cannot continue to use as much JavaScript as is now normal and expect the web to flourish. At the same time, most developers experience no constraint on their use of JS...until it's too late. Lightweight, effective tools are here, but we're stuck in a rhetorical rut. We need to reset our conversation about 'developer experience' to factor in the asymmetric cost of JS.| Infrequently Noted
