The amount of time it takes for your website to load onto the visitor’s screen is a major influence on traffic to your site. Research has shown that most internet users will leave your website if it takes more than 10 seconds to load and some potential guests will exit even faster. A quick loading website is vitally important to the success of your site.
There are a variety of different ways a person may access your site. Individuals still using dial-up connections will typically see the slowest load times. If you have a site that loads slowly for high speed internet users, chances are that those with dial-up will give up long before the site is loaded. To get visitors to browse your website, it must load quickly.
One way to tell if your website may load too slowly is to check your visitor statistics. Look for a high number of page loads for your home page with little or no activity on the other pages. This could mean your visitors are clicking away because they become tired of waiting for your page to load.
To ensure a quick and efficient loading time, monitor the size of each of your website pages, as well as the download time. There are a few other...