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CHAR-KOOSTA Newspaper of the Confederated Salisb & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation The debate begins. . . County commissioner attacks treaties and Tribal sovereignty The first volley of opinion in the debate developing about the Tribes' proposed constitutional amendments was fired late last month by Mike Hutchin, chairman of the Lake County commissioners The nam* Char-Koo«ta is derived from Chief Charlc's and Chief Koostatah'a names. They were the Tribes' last traditional chiefs._ s U si r-o CK CS • NU -J CO -J CN o in CJ r-i
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Description | County commissioner attacks treaties and Tribal sovereignty; 'Treaty antagonists' are alive and active in the northwest USA; Tribe join Sanders County and others in weed-control research; Teen council walks a mile in their elder's mocassins; Schools plan show off day; Important election update; Flathead Culture Committee interpretation of the month of January; Coyote and the chipmunk; How can I tell if my child's being abused?; Per capitas and potatoes paired up; Zuni Tribe runs its own school district; Two Indians included in Esquire's register of U.S. leaders; New Mexico voters elect Pueblo Indian to state legislature. |
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As NLDS shifts to Pittsburgh, Liriano ready
Bucs seek Blackout from fans in Game 3 as Cards counter with Kelly
The Pirates returned the favor on the Cardinals by lighting up the scoreboard to knot up the National League Division Series, bringing some added electricity to the matchup of NL Central rivals.
Now, it's time for a Blackout.
PNC Park will be the venue for Game 3 of the NLDS, and as the Pirates head home having wrested the home-field advantage from the Cards with their Game 2 victory, Pittsburgh's fans will be ready to deliver their black-clad brand of boisterous support for their club.
On top of that atmosphere, the Pirates will have lefty starter Francisco Liriano on the mound after a dominant season against the Cardinals, meeting second-year right-hander Joe Kelly on Sunday (4:30 p.m. ET, TBS).
For Pittsburgh native Neil Walker, the chance to take control of the series before a home crowd hungry to see the first-ever Division Series game in the tradition-rich town is an opportunity the Bucs will savor.
"We know playing at home is more beneficial to us," Walker said after the Pirates took Game 2, 7-1. "We also know that St. Louis is not going to be rattled. They've played in a lot of hostile environments. We know we'll have to play good baseball, like today, to be successful."
The Cardinals head to Pittsburgh knowing they need to win at least one game to bring the series back to St. Louis, and they know what to expect from the environment at PNC Park.
"They're going to be rowdy, and they're going to be into it, and they should be, just like our fans have been," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said.
While they've dealt well with any environment and have overcome challenges throughout the season, the Cardinals have not been able to handle Liriano thus far this season.
The veteran lefty has gone 3-0 with a 0.75 ERA against the Cardinals in three starts this year, spinning eight scoreless innings against them his last time facing them on Aug. 30. Overall, Liriano has been masterful at home, going 8-1 with a 1.47 ERA in 11 starts at PNC Park.
"I don't know what to say," Liriano said when asked about his success at PNC. "I think I've been able to execute pitches here, and the guys behind me make some great plays for me here."
For the Pirates, the situation couldn't be much more comfortable under the tense conditions of October baseball.
"Now we're getting to back to our house, which has been a good place for us to play, and we'll have Liriano on the mound," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "So from that standpoint, we're set up as strong as we could want to be set up for Game 3."
For the Cardinals, facing Liriano means an opportunity to turn things around against a pitcher who has done a lot of damage against them this season.
"I know Liriano has pitched great and all that, but you never know," said veteran Cardinals outfielder Carlos Beltran, who has gone 3-for-10 while the Cardinals overall have batted .149 against Liriano. "Starters sometimes don't feel it, and all of a sudden, they start putting balls down the middle and the other team takes advantage of it. I know they're hoping for him to pitch a good game, and we're hoping he throws some pitches right down the middle."
The Cardinals are countering with Kelly, who went 10-2 with a 2.18 ERA in 15 outings since joining the rotation July 6. He made consecutive starts against the Pirates at the beginning of September, winning both by pitching six innings and allowing just one run.
This will be a different and bigger stage, but Kelly is looking forward to the opportunity.
"It's going to be fun. I'm going to face a good pitcher in Liriano," Kelly said.
And, of course, it'll all take place under Blackout conditions.
"The atmosphere is going to be electric, obviously, and I think our side is looking forward to it," Kelly said. "Their side is obviously going to look forward to it, and we're going to go out there and have a good ballgame."
Cardinals: Needing youth to serve
In Kelly and Michael Wacha, the Cardinals are going with two young starters in their games at Pittsburgh, and that fits in with how things have gone this year. Kelly, in his second year, and rookies Wacha and Shelby Miller stepped up in a big way for St. Louis this year when the Cardinals needed them.
"We've been using the young guys all year long," catcher Yadier Molina said, "and they've been doing a good job for us."
Said Matheny: "We're really happy with how all of our starters ended the season. We felt very comfortable throwing any of them in any particular spot."
• Even after a pair of games with wide margins of victory, Matheny says the games have to be approached as close ones, regardless of the score.
"Even the other day when we had the lead, we wanted to keep the throttle down and know that [the Pirates] would keep coming," Matheny said. "I sense in their dugout they believe the same thing. Our offenses both have the ability to explode, which makes any game a close game."
Pirates: Alvarez off to hot start
He has a ways to go in order to catch up to Beltran as an all-time postseason star, but Pedro Alvarez is off to a fine start in his first outing in October.
Alvarez had a pair of homers and a double in the first two games in St. Louis, driving in three runs and scoring three. The NL co-leader with 36 homers in the regular season, he became the fifth Pirates player to homer in consecutive playoff games with a blast to dead center to get the Pirates' party started Friday. He's the first Pirate to homer in back-to-back playoff games since Willie Stargell in the 1974 NLCS.
"Nothing better than Pedro getting his bat running hot right away," Hurdle said. "There is not a park he can't hit it out of. He can drive it out from line to line. He misses balls and they carry over the fence."
• With the change in venue, the teams will be playing in a park with decidedly different dimensions, including a left-center "nook" at 410 feet and a distance of 383 feet to straightaway left.
"It's the largest left field in baseball," Hurdle said. "It's reminiscent of the old days in Yankee Stadium. There's plenty of right-handed batters who hit the ball, flip their bat and we catch it at the track, if not in front of the track."
While the Cardinals have played there enough to know the difference and probably wouldn't be caught in that trap, that setup is the reason the Pirates double up with speed in the outfield, Andrew McCutchen in center and Starling Marte in left.
Worth noting
• Through Game 2, the Pirates' all-time postseason record is 42-50. The Cardinals are at 113-99.
• McCutchen has hits in each of his three postseason games thus far, going 5-for-11 this October.
• Molina's homer in Game 2 was his third in a long postseason career, but his first since the 2006 NL Championship Series. He hit his other homer in that NLCS as well.
• With six home runs this postseason, the Pirates already have the third most for any October run in team history, behind 1971 (13) and '79 (seven).
John Schlegel is a national reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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When Design Best Practices Become Performance Worst Practices
Your design team has come up with a gorgeous prototype for the next iteration of your home page. It conforms to known design and usability best practices, and your testers loved it in the lab. You push the design to your live site and the results are … well, a little disappointing. Not terrible, but your conversion rate hasn't made the leap you expected.
Why? You've done everything by the book, but perhaps the book is missing a chapter or two. Chances are, you've accidentally made one of three common design mistakes, and these mistakes have affected how your pages load, which ultimately hurts page views, bounce rate, conversions, and pretty much every business metric you care about.
If it's any consolation, you're not alone. A recent survey of retail websites found that many of the top global ecommerce brands are making the same mistakes.
The Relationship Between Page Speed and Business Metrics
I'll keep this short, in case you're already familiar with the knowledge that there's a direct relationship between how quickly a web application performs and how effective it is at doing whatever it's intended to do. Over the past few years, there's been a growing body of evidence that makes an undeniable connection between page speed and key performance indicators such as page views, bounce rate, cart size, sales, customer satisfaction, and pretty much any other business metric you can think of.
For example, an in-house Walmart.com study found that, for every one second of load time improvement, the site experienced up to a 2% increase in conversions. For every 100 milliseconds of improvement, incremental revenues grew by up to 1%. And in another study about the impact of page delay on ecommerce metrics, my own company, Radware, found that a mere one-second HTML delay resulted in the following penalties for an ecommerce client:
- 3.5% decrease in conversion rate,
- 2.1% drop in cart size,
- 9.4% fewer page views, and
- 8.3% increase in bounce rate.
What's the Sweet Spot?
According to Google, pages should ideally render content above the fold in one second or less, even for smartphones. This is a pretty aggressive goal, so most people in the performance community have coalesced around the agreement that if you're serving your primary content in three seconds or less, you're doing okay, if not great.
Unfortunately, most retailers—even big household-name e-commerce shops—aren't hitting this three-second target. Among the top 100 online retailers, the median time to interact (aka TTI, the moment when a page's primary content renders and becomes interactive) is 5.3 seconds; only 18% of these sites had a TTI of 3 seconds or less, and 26% took 8 seconds or longer to become interactive.
A Bit of Background into Our Research …
Since 2010, Radware has been measuring and tracking the performance and page composition of leading e-commerce sites. The purpose of this research is to gain ongoing visibility into the real-world performance of leading e-commerce sites—to learn how these sites perform for visitors sitting at home using the internet under normal browsing conditions—and to provide strategies and best practices that will enable site owners to serve pages faster. (Full disclosure: We have a technology called FastView that automates many of these best practices.)
Late last year, we ran a series of performance tests for the top 100 e-commerce sites for our quarterly State of the Union for e-commerce web performance. Using WebPagetest—an online tool supported by Google—we tested the load time and composition of the home pages for each site.
A surprising number of these sites are making the same three design/usability mistakes over and over
An under-appreciated and under-utilized WebPagetest feature that allows you to generate a timed frame-by-frame filmstrip-style view of a page's entire load time led us to the discovery that a surprising number of these sites are making the same three design/usability mistakes over and over, and that these mistakes are profoundly hurting load times, and ultimately users.
When Good Practices Go Bad
The reason these mistakes proliferate is because they're insidious. To understand how they happen, we first have to understand how they're masked by the guise of various design best practices. (Note: Throughout this post, I'll be citing examples from specific websites, but I don't want this to be perceived as throwing anyone under the bus. These are incredibly common issues, so there's no need for any one site owner to bear more than their share of performance shame.)
Best Practice #1: Feature banners/carousels that occupy prime screen real estate
The feature banner or carousel pushing sales and special promotions is such an entrenched aspect of e-commerce design that we don't even think about it. In fact, we take feature banners so much for granted that we don't always put much thought into when and how they end up on the page.
Why this best practice is a worst practice: For many of the pages we studied, the feature banner was the last element to load. This filmstrip view (which has been compressed to 5-second increments) of the QVC.com home page is typical of many of the pages we looked at:
The navigation elements don't load until close to the five-second mark, and then the feature area displays a progress indicator for almost five more seconds before the banner image suddenly renders.
A separate eye-tracking study by Jakob Nielsen demonstrates exactly why this loading sequence fails both users and site owners: a user who is served feature content within the first second of page load spend 20% of his or her time within the feature area, whereas a user who is subjected to an eight-second delay of a page's feature content spends only 1% of his or her time visually engaging with that area of the page.
In other words, rendering your most important content last is a great way to ensure that it won't get seen.
The solution: There are a few straightforward fixes here. First is optimizing the order in which your page objects render. This tip is so obvious that it feels silly to write it out, but given the number of household-name sites that fail to do this, it bears mentioning.
The next tip—or really, set of tips—is to optimize the feature images themselves. Images comprise more than half of a typical page's total payload, and much of this bulk is unnecessary. Image compression is a basic performance technique that allows developers to reduce this payload, but of the 100 sites we tested, only 9% had properly implemented it.
We also found that 87% of sites don't take advantage of progressive image rendering, probably because of the bad reputation progressive JPEGs earned in the 1990s, back when the entire Internet moved at glacial speed. A progressive JPEG loads in a series of scans, beginning with a low-resolution version of the image and progressing at increasing resolution levels until the final full resolution is achieved. Implemented properly, progressive image rendering improves perceived load time because the user receives visual feedback earlier than with a baseline JPEG.
Best Practice #2: Primary call-to-action buttons/links are located at the bottom of the feature banner
Again, this is a practice that, like banners themselves, we've grown to expect. A typical banner's layout, as illustrated here on the Costco home page, goes something like this: background image, header copy, descriptive text, and then CTA button.
Why this best practice is a worst practice: While some feature banners do become interactive before they've fully rendered, many do not until the image fully loads, which is signaled by the rendering of the CTA button. If you're a user who is conditioned to believe that the feature banner isn't clickable until the CTA button is visible, then you could be sitting on your hands for several seconds.
In the case of this version of the Costco home page, the link to "Click here for online-only coupon offers" should ostensibly be very important to shoppers. Yet it's buried at the very bottom of the banner. Let's see how this positioning renders in the last 5 seconds that it takes for the Costco home page to fully render:
Note that the CTA doesn't load until the very last frame. In other words, some users could spend the entire nine seconds that it takes this page to fully render before they see the CTA button and begin to interact with the page.
The solution: Again, optimizing the order in which the page objects render, plus optimizing the images and buttons themselves to render progressively, would fix this issue. And here's a crazy idea: if the CTA is important, consider simply moving it to the top of the banner.
Best Practice #3: Designing and usability testing in an ivory tower
In the spirit of total honesty, I will confess up front that, back in my usability testing days, I was totally guilty of doing this. I'd work with designers to develop prototypes on their souped-up Macs, then bring our testers into the lab and put the site through its paces. I'd take rigorous notes, oversee the necessary revisions, re-test as needed, lather, rinse, and repeat. We'd move the prototype down the assembly line for implementation and then issue a round of high fives.
Why this best practice is a worst practice: Where to even start … Designing and testing wireframes and prototypes in studios and labs only tells you how a site performs in an ideal setting—using a fast system, the latest browser, a speedy connection, and a preloaded browser cache—all while sitting just a few feet away from the host server. But most visitors aren't in an ideal setting. A typical visitor's at-home computer setup could be five times slower (or even more!) than your lab setting.
And then there's the issue of third-party scripts that can slow down or even block page rendering. This is a common and often an excruciating problem that can only be felt on a live site.
At some point between the design phase and the go-live phase, performance gets lost as each team (design, test, development) assumes that the granular aspects of page load and performance is someone else's responsibility. When that happens, the result is pages like this, which take upwards of 20 seconds to load for actual users:
The solution: I can't stress this enough: performance should be the responsibility of every person who touches a page, from conception through to deployment. Too often, performance is an afterthought and becomes the responsibility of the last person to touch the page: namely, developers. Not only is this unfair, it also neglects the many ways that, as designers and user experience people, we can add our unique expertise to make pages faster.
Performance must be integrated into every phase of the design, testing, and development process. Web teams need to see their pages the way that real people see their pages: slowed down frame by frame.
Before deployment, one way to do this is to artificially throttle the connection during the design and test phases. Observe the order in which objects render and where things stall. After deployment, you can use synthetic tools such as WebPagetest (which has the advantage of being free and easy to use) in conjunction with real-user monitoring tools, of which there are many to choose from.
Fixing These Problems = Happier Users + Happier Site Owners
Let's bring this back to metrics. I'll close with a few more case studies for the unconvinced among you:
- Shopzilla sped up average load time from 6 seconds to 1.2 seconds and increased revenue by up to 12% and page views by 25%.
- Mozilla shaved 2.2 seconds from their landing pages, thereby increasing download conversions by 15.4%.
- AutoAnything.com cut page load times in half and increased sales by 13%.
- Yahoo! Increased traffic by 9% for every 400 milliseconds of improvement.
For more on these best practices and other performance issues, I encourage you to download Radware's quarterly ecommerce report, and let me know if you have any questions or comments.
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This is a superbly written, concise summary of the most important points that many get wrong (including me most of the time, making performance optimised techniques a default part of your workflow is hard!). Very mich enjoyed reading it and thinking about whether we are paying sufficient attention to this stuff at FT.
I was a bit surprised to see no mention of the Navigation Timing API though. Is there some reason why you don't rate it as a way of diagnosing performance bottlenecks?
Finally read this bookmarked post -kudos, Tammy! Well written, back by evidence, with actionable recommendations. Great reminder of one of the basics - users are rarely patient.
Thanks Tammy. Just interesting... have you ever considered optimizing your own website webperformancetoday.com? Accordging to siteloadtest.com it's way too far from being optimized, in many aspects. 38 external scripts, no image optimization, no css or js merging, no minification, Cache-Control=4800 seconds for static content, etc.
Hey Tammy,
I thought this was a great article. Regardless of the terminology used, you don't have to look far to see the issues you describe all over the place. Anyway, I included your post in my roundup of the month's best web design/devleopment, security, and CMS content. http://www.wiredtree.com/blog/januarys-best-web-designdevelopment-cms-security-content/
Great article! What tool are you using exactly to see what is rendering at what time for the visuals you provide in your article?
Thanks for the kind words!
I used Webpagetest -- http://www.webpagetest.org/ -- a free online tool supported by Google. It lets you simulate real-world load times across a number of browser and connection types. To generate videos and filmstrip views of the tests, you just need to select the "Capture Video" option.
Cool! I didn't realize Webpagetest had that feature. It reminds me of video editing software, thanks I will check it out! I learned about these two other resources the other day via a thread related to a post from your article on LinkedIn. You should check them out, if you are not already familiar with them:
Google Chrome
Page Load Time - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/page-load-time/fploionmjgeclbkemipmkogoaohcdbig
YSlow - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/yslow/ninejjcohidippngpapiilnmkgllmakh
I think you're confusing "design best practice" with "things that often happen" in a way that is bordering on irresponsible. What UX designer do you know who REALLY thinks a carousel is best, or that a CTA should be inside a banner, or that user testing is best done on ideal equipment? None of the things you listed are best practices that any designer in his/her right mind would advocate. These are frequent mistakes that happen when business owners start dictating design, or when corners have to be cut due to circumstances beyond the designer's control. Any good designer is concerned about the performance consequences of his/her designs - design isn't art, the way the design will be consumed is part of its success. Design best practices are not in conflict with performance best practices - the goal of design is to get the right content to the right user at the right time.
I'm quite curious to know why a comment critiquing the characterization of these practices as "design best practices" disappeared almost immediately upon being posted. Are comments on this site only allowed to be positive? That's distressing.
Your comment raises a really good question about the phrase "best practice". I agree with you: a best practice *should* be a tried-and-true method for completing a task most effectively. What I saw in my analysis of the top 100 ecommerce sites points to the reality: that certain conventions have become so widely adopted that they've emerged as seemingly "best" practices, when in fact they are not.
I also agree with you that it's tough to challenge when site owners start dictating design. One of the purposes of my article is to give designers ammunition they can use to push back.
Regarding corners being cut: I don't see how that applies to the points I raised. Optimizing page elements so that critical objects load first instead of last is about education, not time or resources. And testing outside ideal lab settings doesn't have to be time-consuming or expensive. There's software available that can artificially throttle network speed to simulate slower load times. After pages go live, there are free tools -- such as WebPagetest.org, the tool we used in our research -- which simulate how pages load for various browsers and connection speeds and can generate videos and filmstrip views showing exactly how the page renders. These tools are free and easy to use. I suspect that the reason they're not used more widely is due to lack of awareness that they exist and that they're important -- not time and budget constraints.
My goal wasn't to pick on designers, and if my post came across that way, then I apologize. I'm very aware of how challenging it is to balance the best interests of users while also pleasing clients and other bosses. This post was intended to be a wake-up call that these practices are widespread, that they hurt the user experience, and that they're preventable.
It seems like you're talking about conventions then, not best practices. Best practices in design are things like, "The visual hierarchy of the elements on the page should match the hierarchy of importance of information," not specific visual solutions like the ones in your post. Those will always change as design and technology evolve. Bad design is everywhere; the ubiquity of something does not mean that it is a best practice, merely that it has, for better or worse, become a convention. I can find a lot of people who smoke, but that doesn't mean it's a best practice for health, you know?
My comment about corners being cut was with regard to design resources, not anything to do with performance. Most people would love to do fully contextualized research, but sometimes there is simply not time & money to do it. Some user research is always better than none, so we cut corners and fall back to a more idealized environment.
I work for a huge website that relies heavily on organic traffic; all designers are expected to understand how their designs impact page performance and work with engineering to find elegant solutions to design problems while maintaining performance. There are probably plenty of designers working at agencies who don't understand these factors, and should definitely take time to understand it and learn to design for it. I think an article pointing out how common design elements impact performance is great - I think what you wrote is great for helping designers to understand.
My issue was simply that it is a pretty strong misrepresentation of designers and the discipline of design to suggest that these are our best practices.
This information is invaluable. I discovered similar things when I did extensive A/B testing of homepages. What was a best UX practice only hurt the page in the end and I couldn't understand why. Now I know. Thank you!
Great post. I am happy to read that rotating banners are exactly the wrong thing. I always hate when marketing insists on these.
You or someone should follow up with a post explaining all the various code techniques for increasing page loads. I know I only have a partial grasp of this.
Thanks! And I agree: a follow-up post about techniques for improving load time would be a good idea. It's a massive topic that can't be covered in a single post, but I'll start thinking about where to start.
In the meantime, I suggest checking out Steve Souders's excellent book, High Performance Web Sites, if you haven't already: http://stevesouders.com/hpws/. It's the bible for the performance community.
Great insight Tammy
Would love to see (for selfish reasons) how news and content sites perform. I have noticed anecdotally that sites like Huffington Post, Buzz Feed are painfully slow to load. I suspect all those 3rd party scripts and image compression issues are to blame.
Also, it would be great to see how these new website services rank in terms of performance - services like Wix, Weebly, Square Space.
Thanks again
Thanks, Sudha!
And yes, you're right: third-party scripts are a major issue with news providers. Not sure why this is still an issue when there have been known workarounds (e.g. deferring scripts, or programming them to load asynchronously) for at least a couple of years now.
Way back in 2009, AOL found that visitors who were in the top 10th percentile for page speed viewed 50% more pages than viewers in the bottom 10th percentile:
In a business where page views matter, ignoring easy opportunities to optimize load times is like leaving money on the table.
Thanks so much for all the feedback and insight so far, folks. There's been some interesting discussion on Twitter as well. One person brought up the idea that users' need for speed is "borderline insane" and has a lot to do with an irrational need for instant gratification. I've encountered this belief before, which is why I created this post ("Our need for web speed: It's about neuroscience, not entitlement") about the psychology behind web performance:
Turns out, it has a lot more to do with how we're hard-wired, and there's little we can do to change it.
Thanks Tammy,
Nice article. May I please ask what connection speed these times are being calculated on? Is there an agreed industry standard or do you base each case on analytics gathered specifically for that site?
Thanks, Greg. The test simulates a DSL connection at 1.5 Mbps. It's the low end of normal, a deliberate choice because we want to create awareness that these users exist in significant numbers. It's too easy to fall into the trap of thinking that everyone's on a souped-up line in an urban centre.
Too right. Its gotten so that I don't even use the internet at home because I have no patience with how long it takes sites to render. (Facebook being a primary offender.) At work, using a government connection you would think that you could have very fast page loads. You would be wrong. Because of that I only use the web to look up information I need to do my job. At home I only use too sites google and amazon and those as little as possible. Apparently all of these site designers are only designing for people on Fios or Xfinity, for getting the masses of use whose only options are DSL and dial-up.
Very informative article. Thank you. So many users are browsing their web on their mobile phones. More than one second feels like too long too wait—especially because users on their phone are choosing to be immersed in the content on their screen instead of their surroundings. Waiting a few seconds for content to load is frustrating and starts to defeat the purpose of why a user visited the site in the first place: Fleeting curiosity. Why not give them something to read in the first second?
Hate to tell you, but speed has been an issue since day one of the Internet. I was there, I know. I could go into all kinds of stuff about .5mhz processors and 300baud modems; but it's like everything else. The more powerful the technology, the more it gets used with the assumption that everyone has it. Do I hear you saying "Less is More"? Good article!
Thanks, John! I was there, too, dialling up on my 14.4 modem that would lose the connection about five times per hour. I have a good friend who taught herself to play guitar while waiting for pages to load. True story. :)
Great article backed up with data and a nice reminder that good UX practice is incredibly holistic in nature, comprising so many different elements, not just visual aesthetics or interaction design, but the total experience, including things such as speed and a user's environment.
Great article. Speed is so often overlooked as the quickest way to improve a site.
Thanks, Jay. There's a great quote from Fred Wilson (one of the VCs behind Etsy and Twitter):
"First and foremost, we believe that speed is more than a feature. Speed is the *most important* feature. If your application is slow, people won't use it."
Design is obviously important, but if the design sacrifices performance, then it's basically a pretty waste of money.


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Roxas is quick to anger; he is short-tempered, aggressive, and stands his ground, characteristics that had mixed in his fighting style. He can be arrogant, confident, and cocky as proven in his battles, more so when he engages in a fight, proclaiming that no one can beat him no matter how many times they attempted to. When blinded with anger, he lets go of all reason and focuses on venting his anger. His words have bite, and he isn't afraid to speak his mind.
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Roxas was born in konohagakure and raised there until he was 14 years old, due to the way he acted he was thrown out of konoha and so he begun traveling around and ended up in kumogakure where he stayed and never once thought about konoha ever again, when he turned 16 he decided to join the kumogakure anbu was accepted into the anbu, even though he thought he would not be accepted but never tryed going against it. He then decided that he wouold just work as a regular ninja, while walking around kumo he found himself watching a battle between two people, the first person that he saw was Kamui, the second was Igneel. As Roxas watched he became amazed over the jutsu they used, so the battle was over and he saw the raikage Kirabi come and appoint the winner of the battle. Roxas began wondering what good he would do with the jutsu he just saw but decide that he would master both the elements and aburame techniques.. Later on that day he came upon a grassy field and laid down on the grass looking up at the sky, and began napping but was woken up to the sound of battle, it was between two inuzuka clan members not having any interest in the inuzukas roxas quickly looked over and saw Naizen smoking w##d by ~xtsukune~ who then smacked him for doing so... Roxas started walking of and found himself with one of the inuzukas that was battling earlier that day, he is name was The 4th Raikage the two proceeded to walk to a near by dog park so that his ninken could play for a while before there next fight would begin... roxas asked the inuzuka why he left konoha in which the inuzuka didnt not respond to it after about an hour roxas left and came home to nothing but the nice smell of pie which was due to the neighbor cooking pie alot...
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If you may, also ask which admin apps they use to keep up with all of the crazy digg stuff.
While Mark Shuttleworth's interview with Phoronix has been delayed due to his busy schedule, I got some other excellent news to pass along. Phoronix will be interviewing Digg's developers!
In this interview we will primarily be focusing upon Digg's use of Debian Linux and open-source technologies (PHP, MySQL, etc...), and other things related to the Linux and OSS world.
Post a question and we'll include it in the interview if it sounds good
If you may, also ask which admin apps they use to keep up with all of the crazy digg stuff.
Anymore questions?
Maybe you can post the list of questions you are planning to ask, and then we can help you edit or better them. Thanks.
Did Digg choose OSS for philosophy or TCO?
What would they do differently if they could do it all again?
Any plans for Digg v2 (or v3, I suppose)?
Any thoughts on the concept of a "semantic" web?
How do they see Digg interfacing in the wider world, from Google to news providers themselves?
Does Digg inform its users with new information, or simply re-circulate popular trends?
What has Digg given back to the OSS world?
Are free software and free speech inextricably linked?
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Thursday, March 6, 2014
One day I'm going to write a book called "Things My Husband Says." Chapters will be divided by topics, such as "Food," "Wife's Hair," "Forrest Gump," and "Best Friends" (which is not about me.)
Widdle tends to be quieter than yours truly. I seldom let a thought, feeling or opinion go unexpressed, which sometimes annoys even me. Widdle is a lot more self-contained. If he's staring out a window and you ask him what he's thinking and he says, "Nothing, really," you can take him at his word.
Let's start with the chapter about friends. Widdle actually has several best friends. In fact, he has more friends than anyone I've ever met. I often tell him, "When you die the church will be full," to which he replies, "Thanks, Little Miss Sunshine."
He likes to say, "To have a friend you have to be a friend," which is wise. I admit I don't have as many options as he does on a Friday night, but there are three people I could call if I needed bail in a hurry. Four, if you count my brother T-Bob, and I do.
My hair? Glad you asked. Widdle doesn't like my hair. To be specific, he doesn't like what I do with it, which is twist, tug and twirl random strands. "Keep your hands off your hair!" he says about 37 times a day. (Okay, I know tics can be annoying. But if he flips over hair twirling, he's going to hate me biting my nails.)
As for food, I don't eat beef or pork. Widdle has never met a steak or barbecued pig he doesn't like. "Man was given dominion over the animals in the Bible, so we can eat them," he says sagely. When I note that the Old Testament prohibited eating pork and shellfish, he points out that we are not Jewish.
"Forrest Gump" is Widdle's favorite movie, and he quotes from it often. His favorite lines are, "Lieutenant Dan! You got legs!" and "Stupid is as stupid does," which I never understood. (I prefer, "Me and Jen-nay went together like peas and carrots," and "Sometimes I guess there's just not enough rocks." But I digress.)
Widdle also has a few sayings about alcohol. "There's nothing worse than being sober around a bunch of drunks," is a favorite. He also says, "No, you can't have another because it makes you mean," which I find hilarious, considering I blundered through life for 45 years before being told a second glass of wine turns me surly. But we have to pick our battles, so I smile (okay, smirk) and let it go.
Last week Widdle said something so profound, I actually wrote it down. We were talking about how to ask for what you want, which can be scary. Sailing down I-26, he opined, "A 'no' answer is better than no answer. " It sounded like something the Dalai Lama would say, so I scribbled it down on the back of a sales receipt.
Widdle also says other important things regularly, things I like to hear, such as, "Let's go to church," "I love you," or "You need to invite your brother to come visit." My favorite might be "You sure are thin." (He knows he can win any debate as long as he blurts, at some point, "You sure are thin.")
In the end, I count my blessings: I've known men who communicate in grunts and hand signals. At least I have a husband who talks to me.
Julie R. Smith, who loves to quote Widdle's wisdom, can be reached at email@example.com.
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When bills piles up, sometimes people seek out payday loans. / Thinkstock
For someone who can't pay a cellphone bill or the rent, it might seem perfectly reasonable to dish out an extra $42 to get a $300 two-week advance on a paycheck in Michigan.
After all, you'd be able to pay the bills, keep your service and avoid extra late fees.
No doubt, borrowers may be able to afford to pay $15 or $20 in fees for each $100 borrowed for some payday loans.
But the real question is can they actually afford to repay the payday loans? Come up with $300 or $500 in just two weeks? Or even in a month? It's not a small issue, especially as regulators examine whether borrowers can afford to repay mortgages and student loans, too.
Payday lending is receiving more scrutiny. Richard Cordray, director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, noted in a speech in February that the fees may seem small for quick cash, but consumers in a financial jam could fall into debt traps if the fees pile up and consumers must borrow again to avoid defaulting and to keep making ends meet.
About 19 million Americans use payday loans each year, according to the Community Financial Services Association of America, a trade group.
Some services, such as Check 'n Go, have online calculators that can make the loans seem doable. Plug in a $300 amount to calculate the payback in Michigan and you'd see there's a $42.45 finance charge. You'd pay back $342.45, and the annualized interest rate would be 368.91%.
The payback would vary significantly by state. In Texas, that $300 payday loan would have a finance charge of $76.15; you'd pay back $376.15 and the APR would be 661.78%.
But the small print notes that this is based on a 14-day loan term.
Frankly, this is where the grab-money-here-to-pay-money-there mess starts.
"It is highly unrealistic for borrowers to think that they will repay the loan on their next payday," according to Pew's latest "Payday Lending in America" report.
Alex Horowitz, research manager for Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, D.C., maintains that many people end up getting trapped in a payday loan cycle that lasts closer to five months or more.
About 27% of those surveyed in the Pew Report said a payday lender making a withdrawal from their bank account caused an overdraft, according to Pew's report.
Lenders are able to automatically withdraw payments from borrowers' bank accounts.
Only 14% of those surveyed in the Pew report said they can afford to pay more than $400 toward their payday loan debt in a month, the report noted.
Amy Cantu, a spokeswoman for the Community Financial Services Association of America, disputed several areas of the Pew report, noting that the typical customer uses the product for weeks or months, not years. A consumer may use the product seven times over the course of the year for a short period of time, and not all uses are consecutive, she said.
But do consumers have other options? Maybe, but they aren't exactly cheap or obvious.
The Communicating Arts Credit Union in Detroit has a MyPayToday product that offers a loan of $500 at a time but the consumer has two months to pay it off. The annual fee is $70 - which could lead to significant savings for repeated fees if a person borrowed this way more than a few times a year. There's also an interest rate of 18%.
Fifth Third Bank has an Early Access short-term product that was launched in 2012 and can be available for many customers with certain checking accounts in its markets, including Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Illinois and Florida.
Even the bank's information acknowledges that the product is "an expensive form of credit." A $300 advance with the Early Access product would cost $30 - or an annualized percentage rate of 120%.
But the quick loan is automatically repaid with the next direct deposit of a paycheck into that account.
And yes, you could rack up overdraft charges if you're not careful. Fifth Third said it would not charge overdraft fees on an automatic payment to cover the Early Access loan, but subsequent checks that bounce would face overdraft fees.
"Our point of view is that it's for emergencies," said Jack Riley, spokesman for Fifth Third Bank in eastern Michigan.
The product, thankfully for parents, is not available for the Fifth Third Student Checking Account.
As the regulators debate this one, though, consumers who are tempted to take a payday loan must honestly answer: How quickly will I really be able to repay this loan?
Average borrowers nationwide end up indebted for five months, paying $520 in finance charges for loans averaging $375, according to the Pew report.
Will the payday loan get you through a short rough patch? Or will you end up in debt a lot longer than advertised?
More things to consider about short-term loans:
All payday borrowers must have an income stream and a checking account. Most payday borrowers are employed, but experts say it is possible for someone to get a payday loan with a benefit check, such as Social Security.
One in six payday loan borrowers has used a tax refund to eliminate payday loan debt, according to a report by Pew Charitable Trusts.
There are some options to consider instead of a payday loan - a small loan from a family member or friend; a small loan from a bank or credit union; asking for an advance in pay from an employer, and asking the creditor for more time to pay the bills.
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COOK bacon in large skillet on medium heat until crisp, stirring occasionally. Transfer bacon with slotted spoon to paper towels to drain, reserving drippings in skillet.
ADD onions to drippings in skillet; cook and stir 6 min. or until lightly browned. Add beans, broth and pepper; mix well. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low; cover. Simmer 40 min. or until beans are tender.
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Legends car racing is one of the fastest growing and most affordable types of American motorsports. Powered by a motorcycle engine, a Legends Car is a purpose-built race car designed to resemble the legendary American automobiles of the 1930s and '40s. Drivers range in age from 12 to 65+ years old.
During the 2013 season, NHMS expanded its legends car racing into two series operated by the speedway as a part of U.S. Legends Cars International. The cars race the Moat Mountain Road Course Series on the 1.6-mile road course and the Sign Works Oval Series on the 0.25-mile mini-oval.
The Granite State Legends Cars dealership emphasizes the growth of developmental racing at NHMS. The on property store opened in September 2012 and is located in the S1 parking lot. It sells everything needed to begin a racing career in either legends or bandoleros.
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THE NORTH FACE Women's Etip Gloves
Treat yourself to a pair of The North Face Etip Gloves for five-finger touchscreen operation. Stretch fleece provides lightweight warmth when there's a chill in the air.Features/Benefits:
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- Warmer Springfall Days
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Purchased a second pair of the e-tip gloves as the first pair I bought is several years old and the touch sensor material had worn out. This new pair is a different design with a compound added on the thumb and first digit near the tip that acts as a conductive sensor and grip. The problem with this is that it doesn't extend to the tip, so you have to use the mid-pad of your thumb and first finger to operate your smart phone. Needless to say this is really annoying and awkward to do. The old style with the fabric insert was far superior and easier to use. I also find the gloves to be a much lighter weight, so they aren't nearly as warm as my old pair and my hands freeze. The logo is also a cheap screen application that's already falling off after a few weeks use, while my old pair was a knit logo that looks as new as the day I purchased the gloves. Can't say I'm overly happy with these gloves and am looking for an alternative.
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These are not warm at all for the price.
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Cute and functional gloves - easy to text in, easy to make phone calls in. Not bulky like mittens, so easy to grab your keys, lock your doors, fumble in your purse, drive the car.
However, they are not warm at all in the slightest bit. They offer zero heat, my fingers are frozen if I am outside for too long. I run, and cannot wear them while running unless I have my hands bundled up into my sleeves. Might be good for 35-45 degree weather, but here in Buffalo, not so much.
I will say, they make it easy to change the songs on your ipod while you run. But if you're looking for a WARM glove, these are not them.
I would still recommend based on their functionality and main appeal - wear and still use your phone. They were obviously not made for warmth, but rather for the techno-savvy mild winter texter.
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I got these for Christmas as a gift (a few weeks ago!). The touch screen sensitivity is really good, which was why I wanted them. I have other brands of touch screen friendly gloves, and these are much much better.
However, the seams are already coming apart and there's a hole in one of the fingers. Also, a thread came loose on the same finger and there's a pull in the fabric. I wear them driving or while commuting to/from work, not doing anything that would put a strain on the fabric. I am incredibly disappointed that I can't even make it a month without these falling apart.
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- Looks Nice
- Not for cold weather
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Not the material I expected... dissappointed since I wanted shall material or thicker one with etip
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