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5 second page load is fine. This endless tuning is a great analytical puzzle, but implementing a new feature trumps these complex micro-optimizations that the c
by Supermancho 7y ago
5 second page load is fine. This endless tuning is a great analytical puzzle, but implementing a new feature trumps these complex micro-optimizations that the consumer less and less about, with mobile having already become the common case access (mobile access is already going to be slow from network anyway). It's rare that you get a complaint. Once it's loaded and you have cached as much as possible, you're fine for returning customers which matter more to appease.
- why_only_15 7y ago5 second page load is not fine. Having the page load in 5 seconds is an annoying experience that causes you to lose users -- Amazon lost 1% revenue for every 100ms in page load time: https://www.gigaspaces.com/blog/amazon-found-every-100ms-of-latency-cost-them-1-in-sales/ https://www.gigaspaces.com/blog/amazon-found-every-100ms-of-....
- Supermancho 7y ago> 5 second page load is not fine. That analysis is from 10 years ago. Again, the landscape is different and spending time on this is a borderline foolish discussion (interesting from a technical perspective). It matters if you are the owners of a business, in the mass-retail space. Save yourself the time, add to your features or verticals. Yes, 5s is still fine.
- brailsafe 7y ago5s is a pretty shit standard to set and in general customers or visitors that you lose to poor website won't tell you about it unless it directly impacts them. Also laughable that 5s should somehow become more acceptable even though we have better tools, faster networks, and faster hardware on all fronts. It seems like your argument isn't that it's fine across the board, but rather that it's tolerable in a few circumstances. If I try and load a website that is packed with features but loads slowly and maybe has a choppy experience, I'm going to go somewhere else if I can. It's only in the few circumstances that you can't go somewhere else will you be relatively fine.
- Roboprog 7y agoHmm. There is a lot of difference between a sales brochure site, and a business to business site / app, with things in between. If you are running a marketing or sales oriented site, you want to minimize friction. It sounds like you are doing more of a “captive user” app, similar to the government/healthcare oriented stuff I have been working on the last few years. In that case, you still want to tune things a bit, but you do have goals and criteria which might not match this article. Make sure things which can be cached are. (And don’t sweat the size of static assets too much, the second visit is just an HTTP header swap) Minimize the number of requests. Schedule requests for supplemental data in a component or form to load after the primary data. Minimize the size of dynamic data messages, though this can be hard when you work with devs who like very long names. Accept the fact that many of your web clients may have round trip latency well over 200 milliseconds, as well as the occasional multi second delay or request loss, and plan to work around that without hanging.
- adrianN 7y agoI won't use web"apps" that consistently cause my fans to spin up or that make me wait several seconds unless I really have to.
- hoten 7y agoWhat users have you met that don't get frustrated by slow sites?