Mobile Page Speed Impact on Bounce Rates

The two sources for the information are Google Research, Webpagetest org, Global, sample of more than 900,000 mWeb sites across Fortune 1000 and Small Medium Businesses. Tested on EC2 on m3.medium instances, similar in performance to high-end smartphones, Jan 2017.. and Google Data, Global, n=3,700 aggregated, anonymized Google Analytics from sample of mWeb sites opted into sharing data, Mar 2016... Secondly emulated mobile tests by Google with smartphone on 3G network results in the majority of websites loading SUPER SLOW and Google Analytics data indicates if webpage takes over 3 seconds to load over 50% of visitors bounce and the slower page loads higher the bounce rate..  Google trained deep neural network with large set of bounce rate and conversions data.. The net, found that the probability of visitor bouncing increases 113%.  Similarly, as the number of elements on page goes from 400 to 6,000, the probability of conversion drops 95%.. Think about that for moment, your potential customers finding your website on Google, clicking the link to visit your site, and because it's slow loading over half going back to Google to see the next search result .. It's not easy to bring the mobile page speed down to below 3 seconds, except it's possible to bring most websites to way below 10 seconds and many below 5 seconds depends upon lot of factors.. Feel free to test this sites home page yourself, all you need is Google Chrome and follow Lighthouse audit tool instructions to test any website.. You will note this websites home page shows very fast loading on mobile devices, it would be difficult to get it to load much faster without investing in quality dedicated server this site runs on Godaddy VPS.  Read more