Thursday, May 8, 2008

Milliseconds Matter

In the pursuit of creating blazingly fast web applications, we spend hours benchmarking, profiling, and optimizing to shave off precious milliseconds. But what is a millisecond?

I found it interesting to take a step back today and remind myself what a millisecond feels like.

Enter a delay in the text box and then click the white boxes to reveal a super secret message. The delay represents hard work the app has to perform in order to decrypt the message.

At what threshold does the delay begin to annoy you? For me it was about 300ms.



Inline frame not working? Here's a link to the demo.

Monday, May 5, 2008

JsBench Help

JsBench now has a help page with information on how to get started, an explanation of the benchmark methodology, and some examples. Check it out and feel free to let me know if anything is missing.