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Not competing website but other average website in general. Say that averagely HN load for 1000ms and it's positioned around top 15% fastest. And if your websit
by fendy3002 4y ago
Not competing website but other average website in general. Say that averagely HN load for 1000ms and it's positioned around top 15% fastest. And if your website load for 1100 ~ 1200ms will be okay. OP's point is, if you're able to speed up to range of 800 ~ 900ms it may not resulting in much higher conversion.
However if your site is at 1800ms range it's worthwhile to increase to 1200ms range
- ivan_gammel 4y agoI don't think that it works this way. If bounce rate matters for you, because your website is part of sales conversion funnel, then you do not benchmark against random "average" website like HN, because you do not build your site the same way, your audience is likely different from many different angles and you cannot really measure the response time under representative conditions (because you likely do not know them). The only sensible benchmark you can have is the performance of your own website. It makes sense to collect some low hanging fruits, but further optimizations generally make sense when you have enough traffic to reach statistic significance in A/B tests. And those tests will not always result in more optimized version, because content matters too and better content may outperform faster version in terms of conversion, so it will often be two steps forward and one step back.