How Slow Load Times Hurt Your Bottom Line

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Do MOST people consider page speed an important part of user

engagement?

“I myself wouldn’t consider it very important. Granted, if a page is too slow, it loses users, but I believe if a page loads in 5 or 6 seconds, it doesn’t make much difference.”

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http://www.soasta.com/blog/web-performance-mothers-day

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http://www.soasta.com/blog/mobile-web-performance-monitoring-conversion-rate

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2% increase in conversions for every 1 second of improvement

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Increased conversions by 9%

Cut load times in half

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Reduced average load time by 2.2 seconds and increased total downloads by 15.4%10 million additional downloads per year

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How do visitors feel about slow sites?

(hint: not good)

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17 things you can do to deliver

a faster user experience

Steve Souders, author, ‘High Performance Web Sites’

“80-90% of end-user response time is at the front end. Start there.”

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1 Page size2 Page complexity

Two main performance problems

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Problem 1: Pages are too big

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More bandwidth isn’t the answer

http://www.soasta.com/blog/more-bandwidth-isnt-a-magic-bullet-for-web-performance

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Single greatest indicator of fast performance?

Faster pages are less than 1MB in

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Know where your page weight is coming fromCreate a performance budgetMonitor, monitor, monitor

Solutions

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Setting a performance budgethttp://timkadlec.com/2013/01/setting-a-performance-budget/

Performance budget metricshttp://timkadlec.com/2014/11/performance-budget-metrics/ @tameverts

HTTP Archive, June 2015

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ReformatCompressDefer/lazy loadAdaptive imagesAuto-preloading

Solutions

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Problem 2: Pages are too complex

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webpagetest.org

MonitorConsolidate page resourcesMake sure stylesheets are in the document HEADHost your fontsOptimize your pop-up scripts

Solutions

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Third-party contentcan make up >50%

of page requests

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Increase page weightIncrease number of hosts and connectionsIntroduce additional latencyPrevent pages from loading

Problems

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Defer scriptsUse asynchronous versions (when possible)Know your scripts and their performance penaltiesMonitor constantly

Solutions

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