Website Performance and its Strategic Importance
Website Performance and its Strategic Importance Internet When it comes to customer expectations regarding website performance, they are mainly looking for high performance. Therefore not being able to have a fast loading and quickly responding website can adversely impact a business in many ways. Slow Sites Lead to Lost Revenue Most people tend to expect a web page load in as little time as possible. Therefore slower page loading times can lead to enhanced page abandonment. It has been discovered that about 40% of users would most likely abandon a web page provided it failed to load within 2 to 3 seconds. This is even more prominent for e-commerce sites that can potentially experience loss of revenue even with a page delay of one second. This lost revenue due to slow websites is a very high value for highly popular e-commerce sites. A Google study conducted in 2015 shows that if an app or website takes a lot of time to load, 29% of smartphone owners immediately shift to a...