Web checkers say UK sites are OK
- Posted:
- 15:47 23 Jul 2001
Keen to sell web optimisation tools, HP has been offering a free Web site performance checking service for corporate clients.
The company has received 5,000 requests for checking, and data from the first 2,000 surveyed sites shows that 87.6% of the Web sites responded within 10 seconds.
HP believes that customers will only tolerate eight seconds maximum wait to show something on the page, 20 seconds to complete the page, followed by six seconds before deciding to stay or leave.
Frank Rosenfelder, Internet Business Solutions Programme Manager for HP's Software Solutions Organisation, estimated that "$4.35bn [£3.06bn] is lost in e-commerce sales each year due to unacceptable end-user wait times online."
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The service, which watches each Web site for a 24-hour period, received requests from across Europe. In the UK, less than 1% of the surveyed sites exceeded a delay of 10 seconds to respond.
HP spokeswoman Petra Wochnik added, "The survey is still too small to paint an accurate picture of the state of European Web sites, but we hope that more corporate Web site owners will take part so that a fuller survey can be compiled."
Further information:
HP Web checking service: www.hpchecksyourweb.com
