Research from Google found that website bounce rates increase by as much as 31% from one-second to three-second load times. In my experience, page load times are one of the most consistent technical ...

Google PageSpeed Insights is the gold standard when it comes to checking website loading time. But that’s primarily designed for developers. Non-techies can look at Pingdom and GiftOfSpeed instead.

Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...

If you want to make sure your company's website is ready for a large dose of visitors - right at launch, during a registration period, or just at times when you expect more traffic than usual - then ...

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to load test your websites with a handy command-line tool called Apache Bench. How well are your websites performing? You might ...

Most folks expect near-instant access to your website -- so much so that they become 32% more likely to leave your site after viewing a single page when loading time increases from one to three ...

For any online marketing campaign, the ultimate goal isn’t to generate traffic, but to start conversation and convert site visitors into clients. Because of this, everything about your website has to ...

About 91 percent of federal websites failed a tech-focused think tank assessment incorporating speed, accessibility and security, and more of them failed a load-time test, compared to last year. The ...

Visitors won’t stick around if your site is slow. Speed things up with simple fixes like removing unused themes and plugins, installing a CDN or switching web hosts. Dianna Gunn built her first ...