4 Seconds Loading Time Is Maximum For Websurfers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday November 8, 2006 @02:21AM from the longer-than-i-wait dept.

nieske writes "Of course we all want webpages to load as fast as possible, but now research has finally shown it: four seconds loading time is the maximum threshold for websurfers. Akamai and JupiterResearch have conducted a study among 1,000 online shoppers and have found, among other results, that one third of respondents have, at one point, left a shopping website because of the overall 'poor experience.' 75% of them do not intend ever to come back to this website again. Online shopper loyalty also increases as loading time of webpages decreases. Will this study finally show developers of shopping websites the importance of the performance of their websites?"

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This survey was sponsored by... by MagicM · 2006-11-08 02:36 · Score: 4, Informative

How convenient for Akamai. A survey done by them shows that webpages need to load faster or you could lose money. And you wouldn't want that, now would you?

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FlashBlock by Midnight+Thunder · 2006-11-08 03:03 · Score: 4, Informative

This is one tool I really find useful for Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/433/

If you can't stand flash, then its for you.

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