Too many factors involved to answer that one, including; Location of server: Is is on the internet or local LAN? Specs of server: Is is a 386 or a 64 CPU XEON? Load on the server: Are you the only visitor or do you currently have 1,000,000 visitors connected? Intenet speed (server side): Dial-up or Gigabit internet? Intenet speed (client side): Dial-up or Gigabit internet? Spec of Client PC: Is is a 386 or an Intel I9? Client applications: Is there alot of crap ruinning in memory? Brower: What browser are you using? Chrome is more responsive, generally. Brower allready loaded?: Are you timing with brower initially loaded or closed? Data size of the page: 1 byte or 10 Mb? Amount of hops: 1 hop (local) or 50 hops (otherside of the world)? Cache: Is the page already cached in memory? So to answer your question 'should be less than 1 sec?' Maybe, maybe not.
Everyone knows how annoying it can be having to deal with websites that take forever to load. There are recent researches, in fact, confirming that 75% of the Internet users do not return to sites that take longer than four seconds to load. In order to check the load time of your site you can use an online tool called “Website Speed Test“Â. It allows you to enter up to 10 websites, and the results display the size of the website, the total loading time and the average speed per KB.
do u mean min or max? keep it as fast as possible - very few sites should take longer than 3-4 seconds.
Internet speed connection on client side is often an issue... I'm rarely seeing a website that loads in less than a second, but as stated above, load time should no exceed 4 seconds...
Definitely depends on your site's content and server as well. Lowest latency is good for a site. Check the site speed from www.pingdom.com
hi Website or web page load time should be less than 1sec but very few sites should take longer than 3-4 seconds.
He wants to know what the MINIMUM load time should be yet the DP braintrust here gives him the MAXIMUM time. Not that it matters since the question shows the OP doesn't know what he's talking about and, obviously, neither do the posters.
Just think about an old granny somewhere using a uselessly slow internet connect and trying to open your site. Optimise everything to the least size possible without crappy quality i.e. images, using standard fonts, clean edged GIFs instead of PNGs, optimised JPEGS wherever it can't be a gif, minimal graphics.. And stop calculating. It's not really maths, its just common sense.