Are there well-known examples of web products that were killed by slow service?
- by Jeremy Wadhams
It's a basic tenet of UX design that users prefer fast pages.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/response-times.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/technology/impatient-web-users-flee-slow-loading-sites.html?pagewanted=all
It's supposedly even baked into Google's ranking algorithm now: fast sites rank higher, all else being equal.
But are…