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How to Speed Up Your Web App and Improve Website Performance

Written by Lidia Kurasińska | May 16, 2019 2:02:00 PM

Web app load speed matters.

Users want to find answers to their questions fast. An extra-second delay can have a significant impact on the overall performance of your page, from customer satisfaction and conversion rates to the search engine ranking position.

According to Google, if your page takes more than 3 seconds to load, over half of mobile users will abandon it and go elsewhere.

The research also showed that 70% of the 90,000 websites it analyzed took almost 7 seconds for the above-the-fold content to display.

Luckily, there are a number of steps you can take to optimize your website for load speed and outpace your competition. In this article, we will guide you through some of them.

Additionally, we will:

  • explain the basics of website performance,
  • lay out the general benefits of speed optimization,
  • present some recommended performance metrics.