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Rails Scales!
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Rails Scales!

by Cristian Planas
May 2025
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
6h 55m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Increasing Your Usability Time

We have spent a lot of pages discussing performance, but I don’t think we have pondered on why we care about it so much. While performance can help in many areas, including cost control, one of the main reasons why we pay so much attention to it is because of its dramatic impact on user experience. Load time (also called page speed) is one of the main factors that decide the SEO ranking of a website for Google. Google even offers a set of tools[94] to help you make your site as fast as possible, including an analyzer[95] you can apply to any URL.

a dashboard with a number of different metrics on it

I personally find the second section in the PageSpeed Analyzer, ...

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