While not exactly an SEO issue, it is so closely related to the converting those visitors you receive from SEO efforts that it bares mentioning here.
Does your page take too long to load?
After all the hard work you put into ranking high on search engines and generating traffic, you could be shooting yourself in the foot if you’re not making sure you site loads fast.
Most of us web browsers are the same in that we have zero patience. If something is taking too long to load, we’ll just click back and look for another site to check. Slow load times look unprofessional, their annoying, and as a result you’re starting off on the wrong foot with a potential customer.
What makes a page load slow?
Load times are affected by the code and the images you’ve got on a web page. If you’re site is heavy with tables, lots of white spaces around code, and superfilous HTML, it will load slower. If you’re site is super heavy on images, it will load even slower. While there are other factors that effect your page load time, these are the major ones.
Whatever page your visitor will be landing on should be as cleaned up as possible, using as few images as possible. If the user wants to see more pictures of a property listing or other item on your site, that should be a secondary page easily accessed from where the traffic will land.
Keep page load times and make the most of the traffic you’ve fought hard to drive to your site.
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