Posted: Tue 21 November 2006

Websites Face 4 Second Cut-Off

A new study suggests that shoppers are likely to abandon a website if a page takes longer than 4 seconds to load. This is a lot less than the previously held figure of 8 seconds.

Other sure-fire ways to cause people to give up on a website are poor navigation and long checkout processes - these 3 items are well above things such as visual appearance on website users' list of pet hates.

Read more on the BBC News website;

Link to BBC Article

By: Simon
http://www.eazytiger.net
Web design and ecommerce Leicester

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