In Search of... A better, fast
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Describes concrete performance lessons: A/B tests show adding 30 results increases latency and cuts searches by ~25%; injecting a 400 ms delay reduces searches 0.5–0.75% with lasting user impact, so speed matters more than extra content. Implements fixes: Google Reader redesign yields higher 7‑day actives, Checkout swaps an image for inline HTML to avoid a 2% latency hit, News uses chunked tables to show above‑the‑fold in <1s while full page loads in ~8s, Maps gains 2–3x from tile compression. Mentions half a second goal and billion dollar HTML tag.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:36How to make the user experience faster
- 4:37Split ad testing
- 9:10Google Reader redesign
- 10:22HTML is square
- 13:47Google News
- 19:09Google Maps
- 23:06Google Web Toolkit
- 27:55Performance
- 29:08Semantic markup and CSS
- 30:01No rounded corners
- 30:23Topdown vs bottomup leadership
- 31:29Googles management
- 32:28Latency experiments
- 33:09Performance metrics
- 34:18Homepage redesigns
- 36:14Nextgeneration browsers
- 37:20Thresholds
- 38:09Google Mobile
- 39:14Google Maps for Mobile
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