Defining Standards For Web Page Performance (ICPE ’15)

On February 3, 2015, Garret Rempel, a Senior Consultant with MNP’s Technology Consulting Services, presented his paper ‘Web Performance – Defining Standards for Web Page Performance in Business Applications’ at the International Conference on Performance Engineering in Austin, Texas.

The full paper is available for download here or through the ACM Digital Library.

Industry standards in web page performance are often varied, inconsistent and based on questionable methodology. There is little consensus to be found in published literature and as many ways of studying the subject as there are studies. Many recent results have relied upon their subject’s own self-assessment of their patience for waiting, which is a metric that is provably inaccurate and unreliable.