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Usability guru shoot-out
5 (ok, 6) usability evangelists drive their ponies to the OK corral and basically agree that pages should load fast.
Really not a bad read to summarize the tenants of Andrew Chak, Alan Cooper, Robert Davis and Paul Laroche, Jakob Nielsen & Jared Spool
ZDNet: d e v e l o p e r: Church of Usability

Uncle Sam and usability
Your tax dollars at work! The U.S. Gov has a team of researchers working on projects you can download and use to determine and map various metrix of a new or existing site.
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