Make your mobile site 70 per cent faster

As mobile use is poised to overtake desktop use within the next year, there's a serious disconnect between users' performance expectations and performance reality. Three out of four mobile website users say they're willing to wait five seconds or less for a page to load (Gomez, 2011), yet a recent survey of top ecommerce sites found that the average site took 8.9 seconds to load over an LTE network and 11.5 seconds over 3G (Strangeloop Networks, 2012).

Site owners have tried to offset this disconnect by offering mobile-only versions of their websites, with limited success. Up to one third of mobile users will opt to visit the full site when given the option. Shoppers who stay on the mobile website generate less revenue than those who visit the full site: just 14 per cent compared to 79 per cent generated by mobile shoppers on the full site, and seven per cent via the mobile app (Strangeloop Networks, 2011).

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