{"id":894,"date":"2008-04-16T06:03:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T15:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/are-you-losing-money-due-to-slow-page-loads\/"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T00:14:06","slug":"are-you-losing-money-due-to-slow-page-loads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/are-you-losing-money-due-to-slow-page-loads\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Slow Loading Web Pages Costing You Money?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slow loading web pages will<\/em> cost you money.<\/h2>\n

Just look at the image on the right.\"slow That's what I got to look at for 24 seconds while waiting for a popular blogger's site to load.<\/p>\n

UGGGGGHHHHH!<\/p>\n

And no, it's not a slow connection on my end — almost every other site I visit loads instantly. What's worse – every<\/em> page on this blog takes as long or longer to load… every single time.<\/p>\n

Now, the only reason that I bother waiting for this site to load is that I know and enjoy this blogger's work. He shares all manner of valuable tips, interesting anecdotes, and personal stories on his blog.<\/p>\n

I don't mind the wait because I know it's coming. I do some other work on my computer and when I see his favicon come up on the tab in Explorer, I know that page has finally loaded and is available for viewing.<\/p>\n

That works for me, but what about first-time visitors to his site? <\/strong>Do you think they bother waiting nearly half a minute for slow loading web pages? Some might, but MOST definitely will NOT… which means that he's not making nearly as much money from his blog as he could.<\/p>\n

So why does his blog load SO painfully slow when others load instantly?<\/p>\n

Well, in a nutshell… he's got too much ‘stuff' (that's put nicely) going on. <\/strong><\/p>\n