{"id":31129,"date":"2012-03-02T02:06:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T02:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/for_impatient_web_users_an_eye_blink_is_just_too_long_to_wait\/"},"modified":"2012-03-02T02:06:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T02:06:08","slug":"for_impatient_web_users_an_eye_blink_is_just_too_long_to_wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31129","title":{"rendered":"For Impatient Web Users, an Eye Blink Is Just Too Long to Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google and other tech companies are on a new quest for speed, challenging the likes of Mr. Jain to make fast go faster. The reason is that data-hungry smartphones and tablets are creating frustrating digital traffic jams, as people download maps, video clips of sports highlights, news updates or recommendations for nearby restaurants. The competition to be the quickest is fierce.<\/p>\n<p>People will visit a Web site less often if it is slower than a close competitor by more than 250 milliseconds (a millisecond is a thousandth of a second).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo hundred fifty milliseconds, either slower or faster, is close to the magic number now for competitive advantage on the Web,\u201d\u009d said Harry Shum, a computer scientist and speed specialist at Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/01\/technology\/impatient-web-users-flee-slow-loading-sites.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and other tech companies are on a new quest for speed, challenging the likes of Mr. Jain to make fast go faster. The reason is that data-hungry smartphones and tablets are creating frustrating digital traffic jams, as people download<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31129\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,94,582,589,149,133,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-blogging-the-internet","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-history","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}