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I don't think anyone is under the impression that web developers can't make excuses; we have plenty of evidence of that. I think discussions like this are capa

I don't think anyone is under the impression that web developers can't make excuses; we have plenty of evidence of that. I think discussions like this are capable of serving as valuable reference material when we are engaged with project managers on this topic.

bryanrasmussen 6y ago
I don't think there is a paucity of research that shows that higher performing sites get more users and are generally more valuable for the site owners. The problem is not lack of reference material, the problem is that nobody considers the problem that important (generally) when presented with that reference material. Now the thread is quite big so I have not read everything but I have skimmed through it all, and have not seen anything that would be a really useful argument for getting someone to consider maybe we should try to improve site performance. A bunch of people complaining about Google, Wired, and a few other things that they complain about is not as impressive as just the hits you get if you search "effects of site performance on user retention" (replace user retention with other useful metrics to get sources for the argument being written up)