Load a Page in Less than 4 Seconds

Do your pages take longer? You could be losing business

[Visit Thailand]

Shoppers are likely to abandon a website if it takes longer than four seconds to load, a survey suggests.

[news.bbc.co.uk...]

Not the largest survey in the world but makes one think all the same.

Further research by Akamai found that almost half of the online stores in the list of the top 500 US shopping sites take longer than the four-second threshold to finish loading.

[edited by: Visit_Thailand at 5:58 am (utc) on Nov. 10, 2006]

[onlineleben]

I think this cutting the waiting time by 50% since the last survey is due to the faster web access we all have today. 4 Seconds were considered really fast 5 years ago, but today it seems to be too slow.
Anyway, my pages pop up under a second and even on dialup it is below 3 seconds. But they are not overloaded with graphics.