How important is page load time and what you can do about it (2014)
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How important is page load time and what you can do about it (2014)
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Re: How important is page load time and what you can do about it (2014)
#2Wow... 2.5 seconds to load...
Re: How important is page load time and what you can do about it (2014)
#3I do agree with the sentiment that web page speed matters in most cases. However this article provides little insight into how important page load time is, why it is important, or what you can do about it.
Instead of this one example of a very basic solution to this very specific site's problem, I would prefer to see perhaps a list of common problems and how to deal with them. "Lastly, I changed a few configuration settings to improve transfer of data by the server." what configuration settings, and how do they improve the "transfer of data"?
Perhaps also an introduction to when optimising for fast load time makes sense, and some more statistics, instead of (paraphrasing) "it makes economical sense for two of the largest companies on earth, so I guess it's important".
Also why are they debugging asset requests using webpagetest.org instead of devtools?
Re: How important is page load time and what you can do about it (2014)
#4Well if you look at the graph almost half of the load time is taken by Magento's server response.
Magento is slow. Ofcourse you can optimize all assets but in the end Magento is still slow.
I've seen companies throwing lots and lots of money at Magento hosting to speed it up. But at the end of the day I think Magento is great for marketeers but not so great for the rest of the world.
Re: How important is page load time and what you can do about it (2014)
#5I call bullshit on this whole page-load-revenue-loss thing.
Especially considering most pages (i.e ebay, Slashdot, FB) load in no less than 4 seconds.
When a user needs something - he'll wait. No one gives up on a good search result just because the page loaded partially.
Re: How important is page load time and what you can do about it (2014)
#6The best you can do is pre-render on the server, and use static where possible. Then you would need to optimise delivery and networks. And then you're done... and spend some time on usability.
Re: How important is page load time and what you can do about it (2014)
#7The article is from 2014.
Re: How important is page load time and what you can do about it (2014)
#8Well if you look at the graph almost half of the load time is taken by Magento's server response. Magento is slow. Ofcourse you can optimize all assets but in the end Magento is still slow. I've seen companies throwing lots and lots of money at Magento hosting to speed it up. But at the end of the day I think Magento is great for marketeers but not so great for the rest of the world.
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Re: How important is page load time and what you can do about it (2014)
#9In my experience, a server response time of several 100ms is "slow" for example Laravel with a bunch of Eloquent relationships. Drupal can also easily run thousands of queries per page load and Magento is possibly even worse. This can be easily cached and optimised though.
And it doesn't really make that much of a difference compared to asset loading. As in, a dozen js / css files and a bunch of images. Even when you compress / gzip them as best as you can and load from CDN, they still tend to take up an excruciating amount of time.
The article is good but very "beginner". The more challenging stuff is browser caching with htaccess rules etc.
Google Page Speed tests are actually very useful here and if you follow all their advice you end up with a very noticeably faster site.
Re: How important is page load time and what you can do about it (2014)
#10How did this get so many upvotes?
* Doesn't actually explain why speed matters (hint: over 3 seconds people perceive a slow experience and over 10 seconds people will assume the site is broken)
* Doesn't say how to fix speed issues other than one specific small image/tiling "fix"
* If you worked at a real company this would never fly. The solution isn't to change the background altogether and go with tiling vs a big image.
I actually wrote an article on how to improve performance for everyone [1], and it's the biggest bang for your buck that anyone can do (designers, developers, or product folks).
[1] https://userinterfacing.com/the-fastest-way-to-increase-your...