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10 Ways to Speed Up Your Website – and Improve Conversion by 7%

Think the speed of your website doesn’t matter? Think again. A 1-second delay in page load time yields: 11% fewer page views 16% decrease in customer satisfaction 7% loss in conversions (source:  Aberdeen Group ) Amazon found this to be true, reporting increased revenue of 1% for every 100 milliseconds improvement to their site speed. (source:  Amazon ) So did Walmart, who found a 2% increase in conversions for every 1 second of improvement. Image source That’s not all. A study by  Akamai  found that: 47% of people expect a web page to load in two seconds or less. 40% will abandon a web page if it takes more than three seconds to load. 52% of online shoppers say quick page loads are important for their loyalty to a site. But the average website load speed has increased 22% this year, according to a report by  Radware . It now takes 7.72 seconds to load—a far cry from the two-second limit of your average user. Clearly, speeding up your website is critical—not jus...

Resident Evil 7: release date, gameplay, setting, trailer - everything we know

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - or was that Resident EVII? - is now definitely a thing, but it’s not exactly the thing we thought it would be. It’s first-person, it looks like it’ll actually be a survival horror game and the whole thing will be playable in VR - though thus far the goggle-friendly component has only been confirmed for the PS4 release. Those departures aside, it’s still a Resi game, so expect zombies that still really, really want to eat your brains. Capcom announced the forthcoming Resi title at E3 2016 with a murky trailer and some gameplay torn straight from the game’s demo, which is currently playable now on PS4 for PlayStation Plus subscribers. Exact details about the game’s setting, story and gameplay remain scarce, but the 15-minute demo (one of those replayable ones that fans will be poring over for clues until release) seems to confirm this is Resident Evil going back to its roots. From what we’ve seen at E3 and the subsequent deluge of information that has followe...