Does the speed at which your web pages load really matter, especially in this day and age where broadband is becoming ubiquitous?

YES!

It still matters, and perhaps more than ever as devices uncouple from broadband networks and switch over to mobile networks where loading clunky pages with heavy plug-ins and images can cause exceptionally high bounce rates.

And, page load time heavily influences both PAID and ORGANIC search rates. If you are wondering what the impact is on your sites performance, check out this ClickZ.com article written by Bryan Eisenberg. Bryan states that by adding a second to your page’s load time you could be risking 7% of your traffic.

Worse yet is that some sites take more than just a few seconds to load… they take north of 10 seconds. Image what shaving a few seconds off could do to your user experience and bounce rate?

But where to get started? Landing page optimization is a heavy science and you can spend a lot of time optimizing various parts including:

1. javaScript
2. plug-ins
3. CSS
4. HTML
5. Flash
6. Image compression
7. Content