SEO
Site Speed and Sales: How Load Time Affects Your Revenue
Every extra second of load time costs you visitors and sales. Here is why speed matters, what slows sites down, and how to fix it.
Speed is invisible when it is good and expensive when it is bad. Research consistently shows that visitors abandon slow pages — and most never come back.
Why speed is a revenue issue
- Visitors leave pages that take more than a few seconds to load.
- Google uses speed as a ranking factor, so slow sites get less traffic.
- On mobile networks, heavy pages can feel broken even when they work.
The usual suspects
Oversized images, cheap shared hosting, too many plugins, bloated page builders and third-party scripts. Most slow sites are not broken — they are just heavy.
How to fix it
Compress and resize images, use quality hosting, minimize plugins and scripts, and cache aggressively. A performance tune-up is one of the highest-return investments you can make in an existing site.
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