Is looking after your load time in 2020 one of your New Year resolutions? Here are (a little bit more than) 20 significant statistics on web performance to ensure a good start to the year.
- On an e-commerce website that is too slow, the basket abandonment rate can increase by 75%.
- 1 extra second of a blank page means 1000 Speed Index points lost.
- 80% is the share of mobile browsing among some of our retail clients (in France, 54% of Internet users use their mobile).
- Google considers the Time To First Byte to be good if it is less than 200 ms (less than 100 ms is ideal).
- The median Time To Interactive of the most visited mobile e-commerce websites in France in 2019 was 8058.
- 2.4 s was the First Contentful Paint median on desktop in 2019 according to HTTParchive (that is, the start time of the first element defined in the DOM displaying on a page) and …
on a mobile, the FCP median was 6.4 s (more than twice as long). - In 2019, the French retailer Rue Du Commerce had an average Speed Index of 1072 on desktop. It is the fastest of the most frequently visited e-commerce websites in France.
- If a web page has not finished loading after an 8 s wait, the user’s attention is lost.
- In 2019, the median page weight of the most visited e-commerce websites in France was 2371 MB on desktop and 2365 MB for media sites.
- 90 is the Lighthouse score that has to be achieved for a website to be considered by Google as fast.
- A page contained an average of 53% image requests in 2019.
- The median Time To Interactive on mobile was 9.3 s in 2019 according to HTTP Archive.
- The median Speed Index of the most visited e-commerce websites in France in 2019 was 6771.
- 17% of requests were still in HTTP in November 2019 for desktop sites.
- Web pages took 6.5 s (median) to fully load on desktop in November 2019 and …
19.8 s on mobile! (3 times longer) - Google is planning version 6 of Lighthouse for early this year.
The median weight of web pages on mobile throughout the world in 2019 was 1.8 MB …
and 1.9 MB on desktop.
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