Far too often ecommerce marketers and IT staff overlook the load time of their website.
The comparison still leaves MySpace in the dust, however, as YouTube's average load time was 2.78 seconds.
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Collectively, these deliver easy multitasking, lightning fast screen transitions, powerful browser performance and minimal app load time.
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In 2006, Amazon announced that for every 100ms in load time there was a 1% decrease in sales.
We recommend aiming for a page load time of 2 seconds, but anything under 2.5 seconds is reasonable.
Enter two web addresses, and the site loads both a couple of times and shows the winner based on average load time.
Once you enter your URL you can quickly see how long it takes your website to load, and more importantly, what you can do to decrease that load time.
The biggest problem for us, aside from some instabilities and a random reboot, was lag when navigating through menus and an atypically long load time to get Angry Birds running.
Ken Godskind, AlertSite's chief strategy officer, says MySpace has more media-rich content to load on its homepage compared to its lighter social networking counterparts, which accounts for the longer load time.
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By looking at the average number of page views per user per month and the average page load time, I was able to develop an estimate of the total hours the US population wastes each year due to slow web application performance.
The score represents how well optimized the page is for speed, but does NOT measure the actual load time. (The real load time, of course, is what users experience.) So, slow servers or connections or content from other sites (like third party ads or widgets) can kill performance even on a site that gets a great score.
Nor will the phone load ads every time a call is placed or connected.
LG's proprietary dual-core L9 processor chipset offers ultra-fast processing speeds for shorter load and lag time when streaming content.
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Smart investors know this is the time to load up on equities--while they're relatively cheap.
Once this has happened the following period will be the time to load up on equities.
Is it time to load up on shares of this commodity-focused mutual fund company or to sell it short?
And Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has a not-so-secret weapon when it comes time to load up the iPhone with content: Google.
Since companies reduced their workforce in the recession, and hiring came to a standstill, many employees were happy to have a job despite an increased work load, and little time to explore advancing their careers.
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We managed to load Engadget in the web browser of one of the display cars using the built-in 3G connection -- it took a bit of time to load but looked nice once it was done.
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That is to say, if you set shuffle in your main menu, and then disable it in your player menu, the next time you load a new set of tracks it will be set back to shuffle.
Such a risk assessment is the basis of buy-and-hold advice that urges investors with medium or long time horizons to load up on U.S. stocks.
Having now understood the house's behavior under stress, Kopp and his team will now set about recreate the experiment but this time measuring the load on the nails which lifted.
These miniature cell sites are placed in homes and office buildings to improve network inbuilding coverage and at the same time off-load some of the voice and broadband traffic from the primary commercial networks.
Startup time and disc load times are comparable to most dedicated home Blu-ray players -- certainly not best in class, but passable -- and we couldn't get the player to skip despite our best efforts.
At the same time, they load as many expenses as they can on to their U.S. entities where tax deductions are more valuable (a deduction is worth 35 cents on the dollar here, but only one-third of that in Ireland, where the rate is 12.5 percent).
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Despite the time it took to load, the home page was pretty lacking in actual options.
Because a consumer would be able to see when electricity prices are cheapest, he could decide that, say, 10 a.m. is the best time to do a load of laundry.
During that time, astronauts will load about 2, 300 pounds of cargo back on the ship, and then it will return to Earth on March 25, splashing down off the coast of Baja California.
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To help make this pill palatable to working-class investors, fund families often stress at some point there will be no big, one-time front-end load, such as the 5.75% sales charge for traditional Class A fund shares.
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