| You are searching the Internet,
looking for relative information on a paper you are
writing, or a product that you want to purchase,
or perhaps you are seeking a new recipe for shrimp…..
What do you do when it takes too long for a page
to load? Do you sit there and wait, do you curse
the page, do you read the paper, read a book, type
a letter……
You close it, you find another that loads faster,
and you move on to where you are not wasting your
time.
This is a highly important thought as you are
creating a web site. You want your pages to load
fast, you want to capture the attention of your
readers, and you want it all done in a professional
manner so that readers will read your site finding
what they are searching for in an organized manner.
If you are like most other Internet users, you
can easily find what you want by using keywords,
to bring up thousands of related pages on just
about any subject that there is. Your website is
placed somewhere in the ranking order of a search
engine, but even if you are number one on the list,
and your site takes too long to open, you are not
going to get the sales that you would expect while
in that number one ranking. When your site is clicked
on, the pages should automatically appear, no waiting,
no loading, no hassles.
People, both of the business and personal nature,
don't want to wait. Did you ever notice that you
can have popcorn in just three minutes from your
microwave but standing there for that three minutes,
just three minutes, seems like forever. We are
entering the world of instant gratification, no
waiting, and no putting up with having to wait
for anything. The same 'goes' when users are online,
searching for a product, service, information,
or searching just for fun. When a page doesn't
open fast, no one hangs around to see how long
it is going to take to open and what is on that
page.
Instant Gratification
Instant gratification is one of the fastest things
that we all want in when online, for information,
products, services, and so on. Instant gratification
is easy to provide to your potential readers, internet
surfers, buyers and so on, when your site does
it! When your site, your pages load fast, you are
going to have your information that much closer
to being read or used.
Have you ever clicked on a site and the page says,
loading, loading, loading, annoying isn't it!
Much of the world still have dial up service.
Broadband and cable, and satellite are being used
in some of the biggest cities, but much of world
is still on dial up which is what you also have
to think about when you are creating your site.
Do you want to lose that one huge sale because
your site was too slow? What if that person was
buying thousands of dollars of your product or
service? Making your site usable for each and every
user no matter what type of connection they are
using is important in expanding your market and
reaching all types of Internet users.
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