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Every Second Your Site Is Slow, You're Losing Money

The world's biggest companies studied it and the data is brutally clear: milliseconds decide whether visitors convert or leave. Here's exactly what slow load times are costing businesses right now.

The Research Behind Web Speed

Independent studies from Google, Deloitte, Amazon and Portent all point to the same conclusion — speed is revenue.

Google
53%

of mobile visits are likely to be abandoned when a page takes more than 3 seconds to load.

Lost visitors + ad / e-commerce revenue
Source: Google AdSense Help
Google
−20%

reduction in navigation abandonment was observed after speed improvements in one Google study.

More visitors keep browsing
Source: Google Search Central
AmazonScience
Revenue & Trust

Amazon research explicitly identifies prolonged page-load times as something that can directly impact revenue and customer confidence.

Revenue + trust at risk
Source: Amazon Science
Portent

B2B pages loading in 1 second had about 5× the conversion rate of pages taking 10 seconds.

Lead-generation loss
Source: Portent
Portent
2.5×

E-commerce pages loading in 1 second had about 2.5× the conversion rate of pages taking 5 seconds.

Direct sales loss
Source: Portent
Google+Boston Consulting Group& Ryte
$3K–$9K

For 1M potential visitors, each additional second of load time was associated with average losses of $3,000–$9,000 depending on industry.

Potential revenue loss
Source: Google — Time is Money

100 Companies. One Conclusion: Speed Is Revenue.

From Google and Amazon to BBC, Walmart and Pinterest — here is what the world's leading brands measured when they made their sites faster. Every figure links to its original source.

100 of 100 companies
Google
123%

Found that as page load time goes from 1s to 5s, the probability of mobile bounce increases 90%; from 1s to 10s, 123%.

Think w/ Google
Amazon
1%

Sees a 1% decrease in revenue for every 100ms increase in load time.

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Walmart
2%

Saw up to a 2% increase in conversions for every 1 second of improvement in load time. Every 100ms improvement also resulted in up to a 1% increase in revenue.

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eBay
0.5%

Found every 100ms of load-time improvement increased "Add to Cart" count by 0.5%.

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Netflix
43%

Saw a 43% decrease in their bandwidth bill after turning on GZip.

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YouTube
90%

When YouTube introduced a version of their pages that was 90% lighter, they saw a large increase in traffic in areas with poor connectivity such as Southeast Asia, South America, Africa and Siberia.

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Instagram
33%

Increased impressions and user profile scroll interactions by decreasing the response size of the JSON needed for displaying comments (by 33% for the median and 50% for the 95th percentile for the main endpoint).

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Pinterest
40%

Rebuilding Pinterest pages for performance resulted in a 40% decrease in wait time, a 15% increase in SEO traffic and a 15% increase in conversion rate to signup.

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Twitter
65%

Lite saw a 65% increase in pages per session, 75% in Tweets, and a 20% decrease in bounce rate. Twitter Lite loads in under 3 seconds for repeat visits even on slow networks.

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Adobe
35%

Improved from 7.2 seconds to 3.4 seconds and engaged visit rate increased by 35%, bounce rates decreased by 6%, and the average time spent on page increased by 21% for mobile visitors.

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Wix
250%

Recorded a 250% year-on-year increase in mobile origins passing all Core Web Vitals.

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Alibaba
76%

Increased conversions on the mobile web by 76%, with 14% more monthly active users on iOS and 30% more on Android.

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AliExpress
36%

Reduced load time by 36% and saw a 10.5% increase in orders and a 27% increase in conversion for new customers.

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BBC
10%

Has seen that they lose an additional 10% of users for every additional second it takes for their site to load.

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Financial Times
30%

Tests of the new, faster FT.com showed users were up to 30% more engaged—meaning more visits and more content being consumed.

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Yahoo!
9%

Increased traffic by 9% for each 400ms of improvement in load time.

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Yahoo! Japan
98%

News reduced CLS by .2, decreasing the number of URLS with poor performance in search console by 98%. As a result, they saw a 15.1% increase in page views per session, 13.3% longer session durations and a 1.72 percentage point decrease in bounce rate.

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Bing
2.8%

One second delay in Bing results in a 2.8% drop in revenue. Two second delay results in 4.3% drop.

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Vodafone
31%

Improved their LCP by 31%, resulting in an 8% increase in sales, a 15% increase in their lead to visit rate, and an 11% increase in their cart to visit rate.

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T-Mobile
60%

Used a data-driven performance approach to achieve a 60% improvement in visit-to-order rate.

Web.dev
Ray-Ban
2x

Doubled conversion rate and reduced exit rate by 13% via prerendering with the Speculation Rules API.

Web.dev
Farfetch
2.8%

Found conversion rate rose 2.8% for every 1-second reduction in Time to Interactive.

Web.dev
Flipkart
2.6%

Saw a 2.6% reduction in bounce rate after optimizing Core Web Vitals.

Web.dev
Nykaa
28%

Improved LCP by 40% and saw 28% more organic traffic from tier-2/3 cities.

Web.dev
Zalando
0.7%

Saw a 0.7% increase in revenue when they shaved 100ms off their load time.

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Tokopedia
55%

Improved LCP by 55% and saw a 23% increase in average session duration.

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Trivago
8%

Saw a 8% increase in click-outs (bookings) after reducing page load time.

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Staples
10%

Reduced median homepage load time by 1 second and reduced load time for the 98th percentile by 6 seconds. As a result, they saw a 10% increase in their conversion rate.

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GQ
80%

Cut load time by 80% and saw an 80% increase in traffic. Median time spent on the site also increased by 32%.

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Intuit
3%

While reducing page load from 15 seconds to 2 seconds, Intuit saw a 3% improvement in conversions for every second reduced over 7 seconds, and a 2% improvement in conversions for every second reduced over 5 seconds.

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Mozilla
15.4%

Cut load time by 2.2 seconds and saw download conversions increase by 15.4%.

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Etsy
12%

Saw a 12% increase in bounce rate when they added 160KB of images to their mobile page.

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Lancôme
16%

Since launching their PWA, Lancôme's mobile sales have increased 16% year over year with overall speed increases of 50%.

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Forbes
0.8seconds

The Forbes Progressive Web App's homepage completely loads in just 0.8 seconds.

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Uber
3seconds

PWA was designed to be fast even on 2G. The core app is only 50k gzipped and takes less than 3 seconds to load on 2G networks.

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Tinder
90%

Cut load times from 11.91 seconds to 4.69 seconds with their new PWA. The PWA is 90% smaller than Tinder's native Android app. User engagement is up across the board on the PWA.

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Groupe Renault
13%

Found a strong correlation between Largest Contentful Paint and both their bounce rate and conversion rate, with a 1 second improvement leading to up to a 14 percentage point decrease in bounce rate, and 13% increase in conversions.

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Pfizer
20%

Implemented a performance budget and cut bounce rate by 20% alongside 38% faster loads.

Think w/ Google
Akamai
7%

Found a 100-millisecond delay in load time can decrease conversion rates by 7%.

Akamai
Aberdeen
11%

The Aberdeen Group discovered a 1-second delay resulted in 11% fewer page views, a 16% decrease in customer satisfaction, and 7% loss in conversions.

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Shopzilla
12%

Decreased load time by 5 seconds and saw a 12% increase in conversion rate, a 25% increase in page views and a 50% reduction in infrastructure required.

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Housing.com
38%

Increased conversions by 38% and lowered bounce rate over 40% with a new PWA.

Google
Carnival Cruise Line
24%

Improved conversions from push notifications, achieving a 24% opt-in rate and 42% open rate.

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BookMyShow
80%

Witnessed over 80% increase in conversion and a dramatic increase in revenue after launching its PWA.

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Jumia

Saw 9× more conversion on previously abandoned shopping carts from web push users, with conversion rates for cart abandonments on mobile web now outpacing that of their native app.

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OLX
250%

Experienced 250% more re-engagement using push notifications and 146% higher click-through rate on ads. The PWA takes 23% less time to interactive resulting in 80% lower bounce rates.

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Konga
92%

Used 92% less data for the initial load of their PWA compared to their native app and 82% less data to complete a user's first transaction.

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NDTV
55%

NDTV, one of India's leading news stations and websites, improved LCP by 55% and saw a 50% reduction in bounce rate.

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Cdiscount
6%

Improved all three Core Web Vitals and saw a 6% revenue uplift during its Black Friday sale.

Web.dev
Lazada
16.9%

Improved LCP 3× and saw a 16.9% increase in mobile conversion rate.

Web.dev
Swappie
23%

Reduced load time by 23%, LCP by 55%, CLS by 91% and FID by 90% and saw a 42% increase in mobile revenue and a 10 percentage point increase in relative mobile conversion rate.

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Contentsquare
25%

Aggregated data from 997 customer sites for the three months starting May 1st of 2023. They found that users who experienced good INP had a 25% better conversion rate than users experiencing poor INP, and users experiencing poor INP were more likely to bounce or express frustration via rage clicks or multiple interactions than users experiencing good INP.

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Yelp
45%

Reduced First Contentful Paint (75th percentile) by 45% and Yelp Page Complete (75th percentile) by 25% and saw a 15% improvement in their conversion rate.

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The Economic Times
65%

Improved CLS from 0.25 to 0.9 and reduced values in the \"Poor\" range by 65%, and also improved LCP from 4.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds and reduced values in the \"Poor\" range by 33%. This reduced bounce rates by 43%.

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redBus
72%

RedBus, a bus booking and ticketing website based in India, undertook a substantial effort to improve their website's INP by 72%. As a result of their efforts, they were able to increase sales by 7%.

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QuintoAndar
26%

Reduced LCP by 26% and FID by 72% and saw a 46% reduction in bounce rate, and 87% increase in pages per session, and a 5% improvement in conversion.

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Agrofy
76%

After making improvements to multiple performance metrics (including LCP, CLS and Long Task time), Agrofy saw a 76% reduction in their abandonment rate and a significant boost in engagement.

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Missguided
26%

Fashion retailer Missguided removed BazaarVoice for Android visitors. Median page load time improved by 4 seconds, and revenue increased by 26%.

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ALDO
75%

Found that on their single-page app, mobile users who experienced fast rendering times brought 75% more revenue than average, and 327% more revenue that those experiencing slow rending times. on desktop, users with fast-rendering times brought in 212% more revenue than average and 572% more than slow.

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Carousell
65%

Reduced page load time by 65% and saw a 63% increase in organic traffic, a 3x increase in advertising click-thru rate and a 46% increase in first-time chatters.

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5miles
50%

Decreased their bounce rate by 50% and increased conversions by 30%.

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Ameba Manga
3x

Improved CLS 10× and saw comics read increase by 2–3×.

Web.dev
Ancestry.com
7%

Ancestory.com saw a 7% increase in conversions after improving render time by 68%, page weight by 46% and load time by 64%.

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AOL
10%

A presentation from AOL revealed that visitors in the top 10% of site speed viewed 50% more pages than visitors in the bottom 10%.

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AutoAnything
50%

Reduced page load time by 50% and saw an 12-13% increase in sales.

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Best Western River North Hotel
300%

The Best Western River North Hotel sees 300% increase in revenue with new Progressive Web App.

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Butcher of Blue
154%

Of Blue's PWA increased mobile users by 154%, monthly active users by 154%, and conversion by 169%. Pages load 85% faster.

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Carpe
52%

Improved Largest Contentful Paint by 52% and Cumulative Layout Shift by 41% and saw a 10% increase in traffic, a 5% increase in online store conversion rate, and a 15% increase in revenue.

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Commonfloor
10%

Groups saw 2× increase in daily active users and a 10% increase in overall traffic by moving to a PWA with app shell.

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COOK
7%

Increased conversion rate by 7% after cutting average page load time by 0.85 seconds. Bounce rate also fell by 7% and pages per session increased by 10%.

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Debenhams
40%

Found that the user journey from browsing to purchase was 2× to 4× on its PWA. The PWA delivered a 40% increase in mobile revenue and a 20% increase in conversion.

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Devialet
25%

Saw a 2× increase in conversions and a 25% increase in organic traffic after launching a new PWA experience.

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Driver Solutions
2.69%

Web studio Sparkbox more than doubled Driver Solutions’ conversion rate for organic traffic, moving it from 2.69% to 5.57% after deploying performance updates and AMP pages.

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Edmunds
77%

Decreased load time by 77% and saw a 20% increase in page views, 4% reduction in bounce rate and 3% reduction in ad impression variance.

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Ele.me
11.6%

Ele.me, the biggest food ordering and delivery company in mainland China, decreased load times by 11.6% on pre-cached pages and by 6.35% on all pages.

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Etam
20%

Reduces it's average page load time from 1.2s to 500ms and increased conversions by 20%, time on site by 21%, and pages viewed per visit by 28%.

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eXtra Electronics
100%

Saw 4× increase in re-engagement and 100% more sales from users arriving via web push.

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Furnspace
86%

Reduced their image payload by 86% resulting in a reduction in load time of 65%. This improved user experience helped double Furnspace’s eCommerce purchase conversion ratio, cut bounce rates by 20%, increase mobile revenue by 7% and dramatically improve SEO.

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Garbarino
27%

By building a PWA, Garbarino increased their conversion rate by 27%, returning visitors by 13%, pageviews by 35% and decreased their bounce rate by 9%.

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GEDI
8%

Reduced CLS by 77% and cut bounce rate by 8%.

Web.dev
George
31%

UK clothing brand George saw a 31% increase in conversion, 2× lower bounce rate, and 20% increase in page views after upgrading to a PWA. The PWA was 3.8× faster than the previous site.

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Glasses Direct
6.7%

Found that for every second they added to the load time, there was a 6.7% decrease in conversions. In addition, load time for users who did not convert was 3-4 times as high as for converting customers.

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Google I/O
900%

Users of Google I/O's PWA spent more time in the app than their Android counterparts, with homescreen saves up 900% over the previous year and half of signed-in users enabling notifications.

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Grand Velas Riviera Maya
53%

Resort increased its Black Friday conversion rate by 53% due to its progressive web app's speed and notifications.

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GYAO
108%

Improved LCP by 3.1× and saw a 108% improvement in click-through rate.

Web.dev
iCook
15%

Improved CLS by 15% and saw a 10% increase in ad revenue as a result.

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Infobae
230%

PWA beta has 230% longer session and 3× more page views than the previous mobile site.

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Ingram Micro
35%

Focused on reducing Total Blocking Time and saw a 35% increase in organic traffic by improving their homepage TBT by 40%.

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Jumia Travel
80%

Travel's PWA has 12× more users compared to its native apps and uses 80% less data. Since launch, the PWA has 33% higher conversion and 50% lower bounce rate.

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Kaporal
60%

New PWA experience resulted in 60% fewer bounces, 15% more conversions on desktop, 8% more conversions on mobile, and a 40% increase in length of visit.

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Kubota
192%

Launched their e-commerce PWA which resulted in a 192% growth of daily visitors and 26% growth of average monthly visits.

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Lyft
11%

Users on older devices take 11% more rides in Lyft's PWA than native users and click “Install PWA” 40% more often than “Download App.”.

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MakeMyTrip.com
160%

MakeMyTrip's PWA saw a 3× increase in conversion and 160% increase in shopper sessions. Pages are 38% faster. First-time shoppers are 3× more likely to convert on the PWA than in native app.

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Mobify
1.11%

For every 100ms decrease in homepage load speed, Mobify's customer base saw a 1.11% lift in session based conversion, amounting to an average annual revenue increase of $376,789. Similarly, for every 100ms decrease in checkout page load speed, Mobify's customers saw a 1.55% life in session based conversion, amounting to an average annual revenue increase of $526,147.

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Monrif
8.9%

Improved engagement by 8.9% and reduced LCP by 17.9% using prerender and bfcache.

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Mynet
25%

Increased revenue 25% per pageview using a PWA and AMP solution. The average page is 4× faster and people spend 43% longer on the site. Even iOS saw a 15% increase average pageviews and a 23% decrease in bounce rate.

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Netzwelt
18%

Saw an 18% increase in ad revenue after improving Core Web Vitals.

Web.dev
NIKKEI STYLE
9%

Improved LCP by 18% and saw 9% more pageviews per session.

Web.dev
Nuvemshop
8.9%

Improved LCP by 68% with image prioritization and saw 8.9% more conversions.

Web.dev
Obama for America
60%

The Obama for America site improved performance by 60% and saw a corresponding increase in conversions of 14%.

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Figures above are drawn from publicly published third-party research and are presented for informational purposes. Actual results vary by industry, audience and website. Sources are linked on each card.