On the Web, speed is of the essence
If there’s one thing that drives me absolutely crazy when I’m surfing on the internet, it’s websites that take forever to load. We are all busy people and need to make the best use of our time, which these days we get precious little of.
At work, we have deadlines and mounting workloads that put pressure on us to do our work as quickly and efficiently as possible. At home, we want to spend the little time we do get with our families enjoying exciting and rewarding pastimes. The things that childhood memories are made of, not sitting on the internet wasting endless hours waiting for websites to load, while your children look on with that famous bored and disappointed expression on their faces. The advertising campaign where the children ‘fire’ their parents springs to mind. Nine times out of ten, I find that when a slow site finally does load, they are of no help anyway. That is the nature of researching on the internet. You usually read through a number of sites before you either find what you are looking for, or make your newly informed decision.
Personally, I do not tolerate these slow websites and move on to another instead of waiting, as do many other people I know. Anybody out there who is planning to update or invest in a website, please consider the amount of time it takes for your web pages to load. Don’t prioritise overcomplicating the site over having a fast load process. It may seem like an insignificant thing, but you could lose an enormous amount of potential business over it.
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