How important is speed?

Ol!ver

Ol!ver

Ol!ver

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If any of you venture over to the Mac area, you may know I'm mulling over ditching iWeb as the software for creating and maintaining my site. I like iWeb as it is very WYSIWYG, and I can make it look how I want. I've tried services like blogger, and I'm just not as happy with the results.

The problem is iWeb is the resulting site is a bit sluggish. When you load the page, it doesn't seem to be fetching any data down the connection, more pausing waiting for something to happen. Now my question is, how important is page loading speed for something of this nature? I mean, it's not a business tool etc, just a hobby. The problem is, when it comes to my hobbies, I tend to get a bit carried away with wanting it to be right :D

Am I getting carried away, and the site is fine as it is? Linkage in sig.

Cheers guys, thought I'd come in here as the Mac regulars must be getting sick of me ! ;)
 
Shoseki said:
Hm... I think the threshold was... 5 seconds before someone gets bored and loads another page? Something like that. Changed a little since tabbed browsing and things like the diig effect killing sites instantly, but still similar.
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Have a click of my link, see what you reckon.
 
WotDa said:
Yup.

My site used to be a slow dog when I had Wordpress and a 'few' plugins, it annoyed me greatly, isn't so slow now though.
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How did you speed it up?

Even moved to other hosting it's the same. Must be something to do with the way iWeb codes it.
 
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