Summary: There are 3 main time limits (which are determined by human perceptual abilities) to keep in mind when optimizing web and application performance. Excerpt from Chapter 5 in my book Usability Engineering, from 1993: The basic advice regarding response times has been about the same for thirty years [Miller 1968; Card et al. 1991]: 0.1 second is about the limit for having the user feel that
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