A website's load time should be faster than a blink of an eye. Quite a tall order? Not really, and we're getting there. Speed is important for the sites' analytics but more so for the customers who are either purchasing something online or getting some info.
In the blink of an eye
Load time refers to the time that a web site takes to load all of its elements for them to be viewed by the user. Just how fast is a blink of an eye? It is about 400 milliseconds or less than half a second. This speed however is still considered slow for our current standards of what a fast web page should be according to some experts.
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