jsinger - 3:54 pm on Nov 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

BeeDeeDubbleU, nice point about how the survey was crafted.

was more interested in how the survey group were asked this question. I went to the Akamai website where the actual report is available. Here is the actual question. Question: Typically, how long are you willing to wait for a single Web page to load before leaving the Web site? (Select one.) Less than 1 second 1 to 2 seconds 3 to 4 seconds 5 to 6 seconds More than 6 seconds Guess what? Four seconds is right in the middle. ;)

I would have answered about 20 seconds as an old timer. It depends on what one is searching for. I remember waiting 10 minutes in 1994 for early babe pics to download.

Spent an hour looking at competitive site download times yesterday and ours ranks near the fastest with 20 seconds at 56K. I know of much slower sites that do more business than we do.

We have a customer comment box [admittedly at checkout] on our site and customers sometimes praise us for fast loading. We do read a fair amount of criticism but never once about site speed.