How long does it take for your mobile site to load? Five seconds? Ten seconds? These few seconds could be the difference between keeping visitors on your site or losing them – because people aren’t willing to wait. In fact, most sites lose half their visitors while loading.1 And 46% of people say that the most frustrating thing about browsing on their phone is waiting for slow pages to load.2
With a little help, we believe every business can have a fast mobile site. That’s why we’re launching a new set of features to test your site’s speed on Test My Site, which will show you:
- Your site’s mobile speed: 50% of people expect a site to load in less than two seconds.3 Find out how fast your site loads.
- The number of visitors you may be losing: When it comes to mobile speed, every second matters – for each additional second it takes a mobile page to load, conversions can drop by up to 20%.4 Learn how many people may be leaving your site during the time it takes to load.
- How you compare to the competition: See how your business stacks up against others in your industry.
- How to make your site faster: We’ll email you a personalized assessment with specific recommendations on how to speed up your site.
Taking a few steps to improve your site speed can make a big difference. Yard Dog Fence Company, a Nashville fencing company that specializes in pet-friendly and child-safe fences, took the recommendations from Test My Site to significantly improve their mobile speed. They reduced the file sizes of the images on their site and now their mobile site loads in 5 seconds compared to 26 seconds. For Michael Casper, the owner of Yard Dog, it’s made a real difference: “90% of our business comes from our mobile site. Since we improved our mobile speed, we doubled our sales.”
Making changes like these can help you see a real impact on your business, too – get started now with Test My Site.
Posted by Yong Su Kim, VP Americas, Google Marketing Solutions
1. Think with Google, Find Out How You Stack Up to New Industry Benchmarks for Mobile Page Speed, 2017.
3. DoubleClick by Google, The need for mobile speed, 2016.
4. Think with Google, 4 Things You Need to Know About the Future of Marketing, 2017.
