I'm not sure if it's really needed to find out *if* site speed influences visits. They do, and they are very heavily influenced by site speed.
> Effects of Website Speed on Revenue & Experience > > - Shopzilla increased page load time from 6 seconds to 1.2 seconds and > increased revenue by 12% and page views by 25%. > - Amazon increased revenue by 1% for every 100 milliseconds of improvement. > - AOL documents that visitors in the top 10th percentile of site speed viewed > 50% more pages than visitors in the bottom 10th percentile. > - Yahoo! increased traffic by 9% for every 400 milliseconds of improvement. > - By reducing the website by 2.2 seconds Mozilla estimates that 60 million > more Firefox downloads occur every year. > > Source: Make Data Useful by Greg Linden at Amazon Some of these numbers are already a few years old. I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers are even bigger these days. -- Siebrand Mazeland M: +31 6 50 69 1239 Skype: siebrand Op 3 aug. 2012 om 22:02 heeft Steven Walling <swall...@wikimedia.org> het volgende geschreven: > A somewhat cheeky subject line, I know, but I wanted to get people's > attention. Let me explain: > > My team's job is to run experiments that tell us why Wikipedia editors > stay or leave.[1] One of the conclusions we've come to is that we have > zero data on how site performance impacts editor retention (IP editors > included). > > We could throw all our energy into building cool new features, but if > people still have a frustrating experience because contributing is > appreciably slower than reading (for purely technical reasons), we > have no idea what the net loss is. We really need to know what the > numbers here are, not just assume that slower is bad in an > unquantifiable way. > > We could get a measure of this by artificially slowing down the site > for a subset of users, but we'd rather not do that for obvious > reasons. So my proposal is this: if you're going to deploy anything > that you think might effect English Wikipedia site performance, > positive or negative, tell us beforehand and we'll measure its impact > on users for you. > > -- > Steven Walling > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
