Can the speed at which your website loads really have an effect on your sales? If your site slow and takes time to load, can it be improved? And what role does Google have in this? You will be surprised.
According to recent surveys, over half of the web users expect a site to load in 2 seconds or less, there are high chances that they will leave a website that doesn’t load in 3 seconds.
Almost 80% of online shoppers who have faced trouble with web site performance or loading, say they won’t visit the site again to buy. Almost 50% of shoppers share their experience with a friend if they have had a poor online shopping experience.
This means that as a seller you’re only losing your existing shoppers and visitors, but also the potential future shoppers like their friends and colleagues too. Which brings up an important point – potential sales lost because of a few seconds difference.
With the technology advancement, you will see that users surf the internet mostly when they are travelling, making mobile the most used device for surfing internet.
This is one of the key reasons why you should have a very good mobile page upload speed. Hence mobile page upload speed is an important aspect for a website development company.
Mobile page upload speed is one of the basic criteria used for ranking websites by search engines. Google measures the time to first byte to understand page speed.
Furthermore, slower page upload means the search engine will be able to crawl less pages using their allotted crawl budget, which in turn will have a negative impact on the website ranking. Hence you need to choose a SEO company who will not only take care of strong content but also manage the mobile page upload speed.
A premium web development company will help you get a fast mobile page upload speed by:
- Choosing an exclusive web hosting server.
- Keeping the sit lite, by maintaining the mobile site on a regular basis and keeping only relevant matter
- Getting rid of unnecessary widgets
- Loading mobile pages in less time by choosing servers closest to the location of the customers
- Suggesting you the apt technology for developing a mobile page and to enhance its speed; like Joomla, WordPress, Magneto and Shopify, depending on the purpose of the page.
- Selecting the right theme and layout for the webpage for a faster upload
- Using compressed high definition images
Website Designing and Development is just not about beautifying your mobile site but its main purpose is to make the site smart and efficient.
Velocity Consultancy is a professional Web Designing and Development Company providing comprehensive and cost effective web solutions for a wide range of website design & development services.
We strategically help our clients in visualizing, identifying and formulating new opportunities to increase their business. We deliver aesthetically designed high responsive websites, which are optimized for web, mobile and tablets.
Velocity consultancy can assist you in redesigning your current website. Visit us at www.velocityconsultancy.com to view some of the sites designed and developed by us.