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<\/a><\/p>\nKISSmetrics\u00a0has a great post entitled, “15 Hazards That Will Cripple Your E-Commerce Site\u2019s Load Time<\/em><\/a>.” \u00a0The author, Alesia Krush<\/a>, writes, “According to the already-quoted research<\/a> by Radware, roughly 45% of top 100 e-commerce sites on the web don\u2019t bother to compress their images.” This holds true to any website today that is telling their story through images, especially news websites and blogs. Well, it’s those image sizes that are weighing your web page down. The image sizes are just way too heavy! Yes, you can argue that if\u00a0you’re\u00a0using\u00a0a high-bandwidth connection and you have plenty of disk and RAM space, then page weight is not really an issue. What about\u00a0smartphones and tablets? This is where it becomes a big issue since the exact opposite is true.<\/p>\n Why should you care about page load times? So what if it’s just a few seconds?\u00a0It’s those few critical seconds that will cause\u00a0people to either stay\u00a0on your website or abandon it. We live in the age of now and no one has the patience for a slow loading website. According to Radware<\/a>, “time is money and customers don’t use slow sites. A one second delay in page time equals a 7% loss in conversions, 11% fewer page views and 16% decrease in customer satisfaction. Faster is better and your website and web-based applications need to be lightning quick or you will lose customers and revenue.”<\/p>\n Trilibis\u00a0conducted a survey which\u00a0found that the majority of top news websites performs poorly when viewed on a smartphone or tablet. They\u00a0analyzed 100 business, technology and entertainment news websites that employ responsive design. They\u00a0found that only 26 percent load in less than four seconds on a mobile device, and 27 percent take more than 8 seconds to load. These tests were conducted on a 4G network and should be considered \u201cbest-case\u201d scenarios.<\/p>\n When Trilibis\u00a0calculated load times of the 100 sites on a mobile phone over an LTE network, the effect of heavy images became particularly apparent. So, how can you lower page weight\u00a0without compromising on user experience? The answer is image optimization! To prove that\u00a0optimizing\u00a0your images will really\u00a0lower\u00a0page weigh and make the web page load faster,\u00a0Trilibis\u00a0replicated 2\u00a0site\u2019s content on their own webserver. Here’s what they found on the first one, startupchronicle.com:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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