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How long would you wait for a website to load?

The jet speed age, we are into, seems to have people for whom, waiting for anything can be extremely frustrating. Online inquiries are now being answered in mere milliseconds, and there is no stopping the users, until your website brings them to a halt.

The lag time should not really affect you, until a considerable number of visitors voice their complain about your website loading time. BEWARE! The lag time can even force them to abandon the website completely.

Moreover, keep a track of your website load time on mobile devices too. Work on having an SEO-friendly mobile website too, as 25% U.S. mobile users, never make use of the desktops, laptops and tablets to access the internet. These users, on an average, won’t give your website, more than 10 seconds to load. If you have an e-commerce site, you got to be faster, as mobile users won’t spare more than 3 seconds to let your deal load. You surely can’t afford to take this lightly, as a big bunch of mobile users prefer shopping from their mobile phones.

Here is an infographic, which will help you understand that users prefer instant gratification and slow websites are not always accepted.

It starts off with the most enthralling stats, which reads, ‘Over 3 billion searches are done in a day’. The followup notes that the slow response time for results by even four-tenths of a second, can potentially reduce that number by 8 million / day.

However, the American browsing habits, listed in the infographic are restricted to the Google world. Have a look at the same and leave your comments below, to let us know your views on the stats.

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