Amazon has repeatedly said that page load times matter. They decreased them once by 0.1s, and revenue dropped 1%. Google is also fanatical about speed (ever n

Amazon has repeatedly said that page load times matter. They decreased them once by 0.1s, and revenue dropped 1%. Google is also fanatical about speed (ever noticed how much GMail caches things?). Linus Torvalds said that because Git is so fast at what it does, it changes the way you use SCM. Interaction times are CRUCIAL.