After how many seconds do most people abandon a web page?

Internet medium Data from 2023

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Answer in seconds. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

3 seconds

Roughly half of visitors abandon a page that takes more than three seconds to load, and every additional second measurably cuts conversions. This is the entire commercial argument for the way this site is built.

Where this number comes from

Source Google / Deloitte Milliseconds Make Millions study
Figure refers to 2023
Last checked
Unit seconds

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