Call it impatience or a shortening attention span, but it is a fact that most people these days want everything served up to them at speed.
Nowhere is that need for speed more evident than in their Internet surfing habits.
A decade or so ago, people would already be quite happy if the websites they access load fully in five seconds or so.
Today, many users already consider a web page that takes over two seconds to load a slow one!
And it won’t matter if your site looks amazing, features high-quality content, and has had superb onpage SEO done on it. Once they deem your pages slow, users will bounce off without any regret.
If you have slow-loading pages, you need to speed things up. See the infographic below for reasons why you should.
Patti Jo Rosenthal chats about her role as Manager of K-12 STEM Education Programs at ASME where she drives nationally scaled STEM education initiatives, building pathways that foster equitable access to engineering education assets and fosters curiosity vital to “thinking like an engineer.”