Wow, the latest research shows that web users expect ecommerce web sites to load in 2 seconds or less!  That’s truly an astounding number and increasingly challenging for web developers to meet without breaking features!

• Official report and findings from Akamai
• Google’s official view on the subject of speed
• Tubemogul, a video analytics and distribution company, provides an answer as well

How does your site look to web visitors?

Google released a very handy tool recently called Browsersize.  Browsersize is a simple web site that let’s you see how much of your web site is visible to your visitors. Visit  http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/

If you want to spend a bit more time investigating how your site looks to search engines and to visitors, there are a few other tools we use on a regular basis in house.  One is Google Webmaster located at www.google.com/webmaster .  This is a site that lets you register your site with Google and then setup things like your sitemap, robot file, and check for crawl errors.  It’s something we do for every site we launch and it’s just part of our ongoing commitment to creating the best web sites for our customers.

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