Is Your Blog Taking a Lot of Time to Load?

Posted by pinoyblogero on September 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment

If I were to describe the internet users of today in one word, I should say that the word “impatient” sums them up pretty nicely.

A few days ago, I fancied trying out Internet Explorer in viewing my blog just to check how things would turn out compared to FireFox. As expected, their differences already showed just as the pages on their screens started loading. And it was at that time that I found out something very unsettling.

If I got the timing right, it takes about a minute or so for my main page to fully load using Internet Explorer and around 45 seconds using FireFox under a DSL connection. My observations may seem insignificant to some but such an amount of time is already alarming for both web developers and internet specialists.

Internet users are known to be very impatient people. They don’t want to wait and waste their time. They want their food as hot and as fast as possible. One minute is already a lot of time. It may be okay for a regular reader of my blog to wait and endure a whole minute, but for a new visitor? Highly unlikely.

Small Potato from WPDesigner once said in one of his reviews that “you have less than eight seconds to keep a user in front of a loading screen“. So if it takes more than that, chances are, your visitors might give up waiting for your blog to load! Gasp!

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