It Takes 6 Seconds for a Web Page to Fully Load

It takes seconds for a web page to O fully load (on average, based on 1 billion pages monitored over one week) The average person: Visits 88 web sites a day • Senses a delay only I second after clicking Spends 10 minutes a day waiting for the web When a customer dlicks Update Cart where is that time going? 4 seconds .6 seconds Is it the server? Is it the browser? 67% of the transaction time The browser, the OS, front-end devs? Clean up the code, minimize the size of resources, and call on the CDN provider to help. 10% of the transaction time Bad coding? Slow servers? The right app monitoring tools can pinpoint and diagnose issues. 1.4 seconds Is it the network? 23% of the transaction time ISP's? cable operators? Infrastructure providers? The code? Optimization is harder, but some monitoring tools can help. 6 seconds is too long! Sources: Neilsen Visual Economics, http://bit.ly/loRbUr New Relic, monitoring of 1 Billion page loads a week