The average user has no patience for a page that takes too long to load.
47% of consumers expect a page to load in under 2 seconds.
40% leave a website that loads in more than 3 seconds.
53% of shoppers say quick loading is important to their loyalty.
A 1 second delay reduces customer satisfaction by about 15%
44% of shoppers tell others about a bad experience online.
According to the Google "Site Performance for Webmasters" video - Site Speed is a ranking factor.
A faster site leads to a better user experience and a satisfying user experience leads to higher conversions.
John Mueller of Google explained on Google's Webmaster Central Help Forum: When we see a "high response-time for requests made to a site (over 2 seconds)..." then we throttle the crawling "...resulting in us severely limiting the number of URLs we'll crawl from that site"
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