Marissa Mayer at Web 2.0. Google VP Marissa Mayer just spoke at the Web 2.0 Conference and offered tidbits on what Google has learned about speed, the user experience, and user satisfaction. Marissa started with a story about a user test they did. They asked a group of Google searchers how many search results they wanted to see. Users asked for more, more than the ten results Google normally shows. More is more, they said. So, Marissa ran an experiment where Google increased the number of search results to thirty. Traffic and revenue from Google searchers in the experimental group dropped by 20%. Ouch. After a bit of looking, Marissa explained that they found an uncontrolled variable. Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. This conclusion may be surprising -- people notice a half second delay? Being fast really matters. Marissa went on to describe how they rolled out a new version of Google Maps that was lighter (in page size) and rendered much faster.
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