We’ve all faced the frustration of a slow loading website. For me, I’d prefer that web designers just get rid of the fancy images and flash intro’s and just give me the content. I visit a website for a purpose, be it to read an article, purchase a product, transfer some money or socially interact. I think a website should be easy to navigate, and images are helpful in doing so. But they shouldn’t be at the expense of the user experience.
A 2006 study by Akamai revealed:
- 75% of people would not return to websites that took longer than 4 seconds to load.
- The big spenders on the net ranked page-loading time as a priority
If you run a website (blog’s included), do yourself a favor and see how you can improve its speed. Go to Google’s Page Speed, enter your website’s URL and discover what’s slowing you down.
I tested VCorBust and scored 58/100, which is slow. Following Google’s high level recommendations (image re-sizing and a few other easy tweaks) made for some noticeable changes to the sites speed.
Photo here.
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