The cloud has revolutionized how companies approach their technology needs. It’s enabled small organizations to have access to applications and resources previously only available to enterprises. It’s evolved the way that large companies approach development projects and user experience. And across the spectrum, it’s created cost-efficiencies for businesses.

Before we begin, this article is written for somebody with a moderate to high-level technical understanding. This is not a step by step tutorial on how to boost website performance, but rather its an information piece designed to give high-level management people a glimpse into how website performance works and how it can affect your organization’s technology.

Designing and developing for the web is, in many ways, easier today than it was when the web first launched. Even though there was less functionality on websites 25 years ago, there also were no tools to help non-programmers navigate the creation of a page.