In this world of mobile growth, the time it takes for content to reach our visitors is a number we want to be as small as possible. Images have a huge impact on our page weight and load times, so let's examine how to choose and serve our images wisely.
2. AS DEVICE
NUMBERS GROW,
OUR SITE SIZES
NEED TO SHRINK
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3. 100 MILLISECONDS
is how long you have for the user to feel like the task was
instantaneous
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-limits/
1 SECOND
is how long you have for the user’s state of flow to remain
uninterrupted (though the delay will still be noticeable)
10 SECONDS
is how long you have before the user loses interest entirely and
will want to multitask while the task is completing
4. To keep an uninterrupted flow,
we want to aim for a first
render time of
1 SECOND
5. 40%
of people abandon a website
that takes more than 3 seconds
to load
blog.kissmetrics.com/loading-time/
6. AKAMAI has reported that 75%
of online shoppers who
experience an issue such as a site
freezing, crashing, taking too long
to load, or having a convoluted
checkout process will not buy from
that site
http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2014/changing-culture-at-your-organization/
7. WALMART.COM found that for every
second of load time improvement,
conversions increased by up to 2%
radware.com/fall-sotu2014/
STAPLES.COM found that for every one
second of improvement conversions
increased by 10%
8. Over the last 2 years, the average web
page size has grown from:
828KB (2012)
1687KB (2013)
1931KB (2014)
9. Images on the web can
account for up to 75% of
our total page loading time!
Image use is now averaging
a whopping 1243KB on
websites.
23. The Speed Index metric measures how
page loading is perceived by users than
load time is.
The industry goal is a speed index of
1000.
24. We want our pages to load in 3
seconds or under on a cable
connection.
40% of people abandon a website that
takes more than 3 seconds to load.
25. 20% Rule
The 20% rule from Steven Seow states that
people perceive tasks slower or faster when
there is a difference of at least 20% from the
current speed.
We need to make our site 20% faster than our
own site and/or top competitors.