Why slow access to your site is killing your business

Related Links

Informative Articles

3 Components Needed for Beating the Market
Time to look back 2004 is over, now we are in 2005. This is time to seriously look at performance of your personal investment, such as mutual fund, or individual stocks holdings, etc. Does your fund beat index last year? Does it beat index over...

Content-rich website setup
Building a web site for the first time might seem like an extremely difficult task, especially when you have to consider that you will be building a site for a world-wide audience comprising individuals with a wide range of abilities, platforms, and...

Google AdSense Fraud: Sofizar
It's worthwhile to examine Google's definition of Google AdSense and Click Fraud , before delving deeper into "AdSense Fraud" . Google AdSense fraud is one of the diseases that plague the Ad Words advertisers. The AdSense program...

The Harvesters Part 1
The Harvesters - Part 1 by Laurie Rogers Copyright 2001 Before you start reading this article, I need to clear something up. We're not talking about the people that gather in the fall to pick all those luscious goodies out of gardens every year!...

How-what-who | Aqua | Acne

Web	www.poombatta.com

Why slow access to your site is killing your business

People on the net are usually in a terribly big hurry. There are usually a lot of things to see and virtually no time to check it out. So how much time will the typical web browser give to a site that’s taking a little too long to open? How much time do you give such sites yourself? Get the picture?

Matters become even more critical when somebody is using a search engine, like the majority of visitors to your web site will be doing. Somebody has just typed in a few key words into a search engine. The long list of headlines and web sites that are generated mean nothing to them. All they want is relevant information as quickly as possible.

What this means is that all that fortune spent on search engine submission and all the other marketing stuff people do so as to get a good search engine listing is a total waste of money if the site can’t load quickly

enough.

Do not be cheated that the speed at which your site will load is totally dependant on you. It isn’t. There is a very big part that has to be played by the person or company hosting your site.
The quality of your host’s Network, hardware and their operating system will have a direct impact on speeds at your site. It will help a great deal if your host is a professional operation that regularly monitors shared server CPU loads, memory utilization, network throughput and response times to ensure that every web site hosted receives the highest level of service available.

Unfortunately not many hosting services do this.

About the Author

Luis Perez is the president and CEO for MDS-Host, a web hosting company. He can be reached at info at mds-host.com. Send for your free report on the checklist you should use when selecting a hosting service.