Minimize page download time Usability Guideline

Description

Minimize the time required to download a Web site’s pages.

Help

Users rate download times up to five seconds as ‘good’ and over ten seconds as ‘poor’. Reduce the download time to 5 seconds or less by optimizing content or reducing the size of the page.

Applicable standards

• Usability.gov 2:6

Note: The guidelines.usability.gov website has been down since July 2020, although www.usability.gov is still operating and the PDF version of the guidelines is still available.

Change history

• 5.36 Jan 2020 Now fires on text/plain.
• 5.1 Jan 2013 Don’t fire on PDFs.
• 3.0 Dec 2008 Don’t fire on error pages.
• 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: UseGov2.6