Summary: How important is site speed and what can you do to improve yours? As it turns out, the average user will abandon a site if it does not load within 3 seconds. So, what does this mean for you? In this episode, we discuss the importance of site speed and the ways in which anyone can quickly improve the performance of their site. "Amazon found out that if they were to slow down their page load time by 1 second, it would cost them $1.6 Billion per sales year. But this is not unique. If you take any high traffic leading tech company on the web right now, they will have published a study very similar to this." — Austin at 4:13 Google's PageSpeed Insights Rules: https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/rules?hl=en Facebook's Technology Behind Preview Photos: https://code.facebook.com/posts/991252547593574/the-technology-behind-preview-photos/ Five Easy Ways to Speed up Your Website: http://austinknight.com/writing/five-easy-ways-to-speed-up-your-website/ HubSpot's Website Grader: https://website.grader.com/ Google's PageSpeed Insights Analyzer: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ GTmetrix: https://gtmetrix.com/ Pingdom Speed Test: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ You Might Not Need jQuery: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ Email us: Hello@UXandGrowth.com Austin on Twitter: Twitter.com/ustinKnight Geoff on Twitter: Twitter.com/dailydaigle Matt on Twitter: Twitter.com/mattrheault
