Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic

Re:Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic by markup on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @11:23AM (#465922)

It's pretty much a non-news -- I think everyone is aware of this -- but backing it up with actual tests and data is great. Thanks for sharing the post

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Re:Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic by teej on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @11:34AM (#465954)

We had a discussion about this before, where I shared some rough stats from an application I used to run. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=415809

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Re:Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic by sounddust on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @11:49AM (#465982)

I agree that everyone was probably aware that speed is important, but I always thought that as long as pages loaded in less than 1 or 2 seconds, then it wouldn't make much of a difference to most users. This post changes my point of view; I think I'm going to work harder to reduce page load times as much as possible instead of stopping at something that "seems fast"

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