06-01-2015, 02:47 PM
Most consumers wait about three seconds for a website to load on a desktop or laptop, and about 5 seconds on their mobile device. Amazon found that if their pages slow down by one second, they lose $1.6 billion a year. Google uses page load time as a factor in their ranking algorithm. If you have images that slowly drool down the screen and take over 15 seconds to load, you can say goodbye to prospective customers.