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No. That's not it at all. If your page takes 3 seconds to show anything at all, your bounce rate will be stupid high. If your page loads nearly instantaneousl
by dntrkv 5y ago
No. That's not it at all.
If your page takes 3 seconds to show anything at all, your bounce rate will be stupid high.
If your page loads nearly instantaneously with placeholders, and then the content loads in over the span of 4 seconds. Your bounce rate will be significantly better.
Even though your page loads slower, it will be perceived as faster resulting in less users navigating away before your page starts rendering.
Perceived performance is only one factor but there are many other reasons why you offload things to the client.
- timw4mail 5y agoI've never had the second scenario feel faster.
- dntrkv 5y agoCool, well the metrics tell a different story.
- webmaven 5y agoThere is a difference between 'feels faster' and 'gets users to stick around until the page finishes loading'. The latter is an observation that can be corroborated by analytics. The former is more of a plausible 'just so' story that may or may not be a valid/good/falsifiable/defensible explanation for the latter.