From four seconds, to two seconds, to one second to load a web page?

Posted by admin on October 5th, 2009

For years the industry standard for a web page to load was four seconds. Research indicated that pages loading slower than that cause visitors to leave a web site.

Recently a report by Akamai showed that the new standard is just two seconds: “two seconds is the new threshold in terms of an average online shopper’s expectation for a web page to load”.

Although this research focussed mainly one-commerce sites, one can say this is generally true for all websites. This was confirmed today by usability guru Jacob Nielsen in his report Powers of 10: Time Scales in User Experience: “For Web usability, this means that new pages must display within 1 second for users to feel like they’re navigating freely; any slower and they feel held back by the computer and don’t click as readily”.

Four, two, one…

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DownOrNot.com is mashup of the day at ProgrammableWeb

Posted by mark on September 4th, 2009

Down or Not checks a website from 3 locations in the WatchMouse network and decides if a site is indeed down or not, check it out here: www.downornot.com

This site makes use of the Google App Engine, Google Talk, and the WatchMouse API: api.watchmouse.com

The DownOrNot mashup has been chosen as mashup of the day at ProgrammableWeb!

Remember to vote for this mashup and our API if you like it!

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