Run a speed test on your website.

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Christopher Ross

Run a speed test on your website.

If your website is slow, people will not read it. Worse, Google will not index it. So get out there and run a speed test!

There are two things modern web surfers will wait for, their online bank statement and their online credit card statement. If you’re not a bank, stop making people wait for things.

Anecdotally I can prove this to you. When I worked as the head geek for a university we had a device that could throttle (limit) the speed of the Internet by the website. That means that I could choose to retard the speed of a website and that’s exactly what we did to a major social media site.

Instead of blocking from our users, we simply made it unbearably slow. Instead of reading status updates, staff returned to work.

 

Budget for this task.
Free

Time to complete.
Minutes (1 to five)

How often should you do this?
Monthly

Difficulty level.
Basic Knowledge

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