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Chrome dev tools offer a "slow 3G" and a "fast 3G". Slow 3G? With fresh cache on "slow 3G", my site _works_, but has 5-8 second page loads. Would you have cons
by jrochkind1 2y ago
Chrome dev tools offer a "slow 3G" and a "fast 3G". Slow 3G?
With fresh cache on "slow 3G", my site _works_, but has 5-8 second page loads. Would you have consider that usable/sufficient, or pretty awful?
- BehindBlueEyes 2y agoIt depends if you are ok with 1/3 to 2/3rds of your visitors bouncing due to loading times and losing 3 to 5x of convertion rate depending on sources...
- jrochkind1 2y agoNo need to be sarcastic. What page load speed at "slow 3G" speeds do you believe is necessary to avoid that? (I work for a non-profit cultural heritage organization, we don't really have "conversions")
- BehindBlueEyes 2y agoI didn't mean this sarcastically, it is a decision and may not apply to all situations. You can see these kinds of differences with just a few seconds difference, ideally I aim to stay under 2s, even on the slowest connection type. 2s is already very long for a user to wait and many will not. Non profits are tricky. You could see volunteer sign ups and donations as conversions. I manage a non profit site as well and unfortunately I don't have a good solution that is both fast and approachable for our staff to use, so we had to make that compromise as well.