How fast is your website?
Posted by Sean Hurley | User Experience, Website Development | No CommentsHow quickly does your website load? Are you running a website that has a lot of images or a lot of javascript? If you notice your website taking longer than 5 seconds to load, you might want to consider looking into alternative solutions to improve site speed. You may not think it’s an import feature of your website, but if you were to poll all new website visitors, you would find they tend to disagree. Waiting for a website to load is one of my biggest frustrations, and with just a little optimization your website can be drastically improved.
If you are not sure how quickly your website loads, or you would like to learn how to test this before outsourcing your project to a website designer/developer, try using Pingdom. Pingdom is a great solution to either doing a one-time test of your websites performance, or to continually run site monitoring. Take a few minutes and test your website using their “Site performance” tool, and you will know within a few minutes if your website is loading at a reasonable rate or not.
Always keep these type of performance metrics top of mind, because all it takes is one bad experience on your website for someone not to come back.











