Fast, faster, CloudFront – Speed matters!
It’s clear that speed matters to the users. Page visitors are impatient and nasty, they expect the page to load fast, Google-fast. Peter Da Vanzo from seobook.com suggests that this constant threat of loosing users even justifies to sacrifice graphics and features in lieu of speed.
Yesterday Amazon released their new service called CloudFront which is aimed to enhance network performance (lower latency) through a network of edge location around the world.
Amazon CloudFront locations world-wide: (A) London, UK (B) Frankfurt, Germany (C) Amsterdam, Netherlands (D) Dublin, Ireland (E) Newark, NJ (F) Ashburn, VA (G) Miami, FL (H) Saint Louis, MO (I) Dallas, TX (J) Seattle, WA (K) Palo Alto, CA (L) Los Angeles, CA (M) Hong Kong (N) Tokyo, Japan
Pricing is on a per-per-use basis without minimum fees and might be a really good hosting solution for companies with an international audience who care about their users.
John Resig and his team from jQuery reported large improvements where latency has shrunk to a quarter of the usual times.
Send me your experiences and thoughts!
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December 31st, 2008 at 12:53 pm
[...] Users hate to wait. Long loading times, flash intros, videos or audios that start dangling away automatically will drive them nuts. Blinking advertisements and popup windows will only add to their hatred. Give them a nice and clean interface that outline important customer care words with high information scent. Speed matters! [...]