A recent study in the US, as reported by Mashable, shows how important it is to have fast page load times. Quite simply, your customers will not wait for your pages to load. If they take too long they will go elsewhere.
Here are the key findings:
- 1 in 4 people abandon web pages that take longer than 4 seconds to load.
- Half of mobile users will abandon a website if it takes longer than 10 seconds to load
- ... and 60% of them won't return.
- In the US 25% of mobile web users only browse the internet on their phone.
- 79% of mobile users shop online.... 40% will only wait 3 seconds before they give up.
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Browser Market Shares
I haven't written about the latest market shares of web browsers, so here they for February 2012 as recorded by NetMarketShare
Desktop
Internet Explorer still leads the pack at 52.8%
Firefox retains second place with a share of 20.9%
Google's Chrome is in third place with a share of 18.9% and rising all the time. It is likely to overtake Firefox soon.
Apple's Safari is hovering around the 5% mark.
Mobile
However, for mobile browsing, Safari dominates thanks to the ubiquity of the iPhone and iPad. It stands at 61% in February 2012.
Android has just under 19%, while Blackberry languishes at under 1.7%.
Desktop
Internet Explorer still leads the pack at 52.8%
Firefox retains second place with a share of 20.9%
Google's Chrome is in third place with a share of 18.9% and rising all the time. It is likely to overtake Firefox soon.
Apple's Safari is hovering around the 5% mark.
Mobile
However, for mobile browsing, Safari dominates thanks to the ubiquity of the iPhone and iPad. It stands at 61% in February 2012.
Android has just under 19%, while Blackberry languishes at under 1.7%.
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