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Activity response, startup times
I'm interested in what is a reasonable start up time or behavior for applications on smart phones.
This is simply when you click an icon on the launcher (as it may be called on Android) to the moment ...
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How patient are users at wait dialogs?
What is the length of time the average user will wait at a wait indicator (i.e. a spinning circle, beach-ball-of-death, egg-timer) before they think something has gone wrong?
If anybody can point to ...
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A single, long load - or multiple short loads, which would provide a better experience?
I have a very large, modular web application.
When it starts I can do things one of three ways:
A moderately long load time (about 60 seconds) to fetch all of the modules from the server (presented ...
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Managing an App's Loading Time Expectations
I was recently asked to come up with a framework to benchmark loading time expectations based on the tasks being performed in the app.
I found that there were three categories in which I could define ...
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How to smoothly hide loading message and show the fetched data [closed]
How to smoothly hide loading message and show the fetched data.
I am using jquery to make an ajax call to get some data in meanwhile I am show user a loading gif, once the ajax call is successfull i ...
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2answers
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Showing “in progress” in a full AJAX application when we don't know where the new content will be placed
I am building a web application that is fully AJAX enabled. Clicking a link will load the page from the server and some tricky javascript will determine which parts of the page will require replacing. ...
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3answers
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How to measure UI lag on computer?
Are there any tools available to help measure the UI lag of a given application running on a given computer?
There are plenty of guidelines out there as to how "fast" a UI ought to be, but how can I ...
