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How Latency Can Kill the Video Experience. Jason Thibeault, Sr. Director, Marketing Strategy at Limelight Networks. Real. The reason why your audience is leaving. ^. The reasons that people walk out of presentations. They leave for lots of reasons This is reason #1 This is reason #2
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How Latency Can Kill the Video Experience Jason Thibeault, Sr. Director, Marketing Strategy at Limelight Networks
Real The reason why your audience is leaving ^
The reasons that people walk out of presentations • They leave for lots of reasons • This is reason #1 • This is reason #2 • This is reason #3 • Don’t you wish there weren’t any more reasons • And this is reason #5 • And reason #6 • Wow, when do these reasons end? • Reason #7 • Reason #8 • Reason #9 • Reason #10 • Haha are you still reading this? • Your eyes must be hurting by now. I mean seriously can you even get anything out of this? • Reason #11 • Reason #12 • There is no reason #13 because it’s bad luck • Reason #14 • What’s this guy’s name again? • And you thought there were only 5… • What’s that, you want a few more? • Reason #16 • Reason #17 • Did you call your wife? • Reason #19 • And the last reason • Reason #20
The silent killer • A temporary 500-millesecond increase in page load time resulted in a measurable 20% drop in Google traffic. • Page load times that are just 250 milleseconds slower than an alternative will send customers to competitors. • For Amazon.com, each additional 100 milleseconds in page load time results in $750 million in lost sales.
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Reduce roundtrips • Combine images • Combine JavaScript • Combine CSS • Re-order requests • Reduce payload even more • Minify CSS and JavaScript • Add image compression • Increase concurrency
Use fewer trips Prioritize the order of elements Right-sized rich media
DIY Cloud
Every day you serve 5,000 objects from cache • You have a cache-hit of 90% • That means 500 objects are retrieved from origin EACH DAY • Multiply that by a global audience (say 6 pops) and that’s 3,000 daily origin requests.