Website Speed and User Experience

Website speed directly affects user experience. Websites should not only have a simple and clear navigation, but they should work fast. Any delay could lead to the fact that the user will be uncomfortable with the site.

What respond delay is acceptable for the site? Users are comfortable with a delay of 0.1 sec. If the website appears after 1.0 sec, the user will remain in a comfortable state, however, notice a delay (source).

Webmasters need to optimize their websites because users spend less time on the slow sites, as well as less active on them. They commit fewer searches make fewer orders (source).

According to Google’s study, increasing page loading time reduces the number of searches by 0,6%. Learn how to speed up your website.

It is also important to understand that the reasons for a delayed response could be very different. Think about latency, complexity of JavaScript code, optimized images, etc. Webmasters should pay special attention to the speed of the website.



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