Slow response-time cheat sheet

Question

Does anyone have links to current and historical papers and authoritative links (statistics and blog posts) regarding response-time for user interfaces?

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Answer 1

Saving Lives

I read this little article

To quote Steve Jobs:

"Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?"

I think the same argument can be made for response-time on high volume sites.