‘Great Expectations’ Report
Websites face four-second cut-off
A low loading site can mean web shoppers give up
If a website takes longer than four seconds to load, shoppers are likely to abandon it, a survey suggests.
The research by Akamai revealed users’ dwindling patience with websites that take time to show up.
It found that 75% of those questioned would not return to websites that took longer than four seconds to load.
Geez, I hope these people realize that a lot of time it not just the vendor’s “fault” if it takes of all six seconds instead.
UPDATE: Just tried BizzyBlog after clearing cache. It took four seconds, but five for a couple of the graphics. Please forgive that minor amount of sloth. :–>
That’s exactly why I wrote the HTML code on my blog in such a way that my content always loads first. That way my visitors will always see my writing, even if one or more of my blogrolls is slow to load.
Comment by The Puddle Pirate — November 9, 2006 @ 9:38 am