{"id":1065,"date":"2017-05-08T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsedigital.com\/blog\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:55:28","slug":"page-loading-speed-affects-ui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsedigital.com\/blog\/page-loading-speed-affects-ui\/","title":{"rendered":"How to avoid the adverse effect of slow page-loading speed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First and foremost – people DO NOT have time nowadays, not sure if that’s true or just part of the social \/ professional phenomena that makes people believe that Always busy = more productive. Analyzing the reason is not in our capacity, but one thing is for sure – People are getting busier and attention span is getting lesser day by day! Also, smartphone penetration in India is around 25.34% and let ‘s not forget the fact that maximum number\u00a0of people are accessing internet through their smart phones and if not your brand, people have uncountable options! And thus, page loading speed of your website makes a difference!<\/p>\n

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User frustrated because of a slow loading website<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Why does the page loading speed\u00a0matter so much?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Here are a few stats that highlight the importance of page loading speed on the phones.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slow loading pages with a 100-millisecond delay had major consequences in consumer interaction\u00a0with websites and pages when on smartphone and tablets with conversion rates falling 7% and nearly 4%, respectively.<\/p>\n

The 2-second slowdown results in\u00a0nearly 47% decrease for desktop; 51% for mobile, and nearly 38% for tab.<\/p>\n

It is interesting to know that on mobile, pages that loaded in 2.7 seconds experienced the highest conversion rate of 3.3% And on tablets, pages that loaded in 1.9 seconds experienced the highest conversion rate at 7.2%.<\/p>\n

The page loading speed affects the retail giants too. When researched, it was found that Walmart could get a 2% increase in conversions if the site speed is improved by every one second. It was also noticed that for every 100 ms improvement in the page loading time, revenues went up to 1 percent.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What makes your page load so slow?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There are many reasons that can make your website page load at a very slow speed. Here are a few of them –<\/p>\n

Uncompressed images that are heavy in size<\/p>\n

Non optimized apps and plugins<\/p>\n

An over inclusion of ads<\/p>\n

Way too many widgets & bad hosting<\/p>\n

Old, outdated code used to make website<\/p>\n

A lot of redirecting links<\/p>\n

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Improve Page Loading Speed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What is the ideal page loading speed? <\/strong><\/h3>\n

A webpage should load in less than two seconds for the best user experience – shorter the loading time, better the user experience.<\/p>\n

You cannot control the internet bandwidth of particular location. Also, if a user uses has not cleared in a long time, site loading can be slower as the computer memory cannot process the huge volume of data.<\/p>\n

However, you can control a few things<\/a> from your end if you want to reduce the page loading time. Example – sizes of the files. Bigger the size, lower the page loading speed. The smaller the available bandwidth, the data volume to be loaded makes the difference. If it is lesser, the page loading time is lesser too.<\/p>\n

Here are a few ways to speed up your site! <\/strong><\/p>\n