Speed really matters

InternetNews has an interesting account of Marissa Mayer’s keynote at Google I/O developer conference at San Francisco. She’s a Google’s vice president of search products and user experience. She explained the story behind Google’s plain frontpage, and other references to their experiences why the speed has a huge impact to user experience. It pays to optimize the page load time.

“We’ve found the same thing with Google Maps. If you make the process faster, you get more use right away.” Speed also affects the learning curve, she said.