10 Things You Can Do to Speed Up Your Web Pages

The average online shopper expects a website to load in three seconds or less. Yet despite aggressive user expectations, a recent study of the top 500 e-commerce sites finds that retail pages are slowing down.

According to Radware's State of the Union for E-Commerce Web Performance, a typical retailer's homepage takes 10 seconds to fully load and 5.4 seconds to display primary content, well short of the three-second goal for an ideal user experience.