Connectivity
Good web site design has to give thought to how customers will connect to your site. Web site performance is measured in a number of ways including how quickly pages load, given a range of connection speeds. There are a great many users out there happy with their trusty dial-up, and your web site needs to take account of different connectivity standards.
PortraitDesigns extensively tests the page loading speed for your web site, and confirms that dial up users will not be hanging around waiting too long. Research shows our audience is impatient and waiting more than 3 seconds for a page to load often means customers will try another site. PortraitDesigns will optimise loading speeds across the range of internet users to ensure your potential customers find interacting with your site fast, efficient, and enjoyable.
To learn more about internet connectivity and in particular developments in broadband we suggest visiting the adsl information site at www.adslguide.org. It is a very useful site for anyone wanting to know more about broadband. If you are thinking about upgrading your hardware to switch to broadband then the excellent www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk is worth a look before you buy anywhere else.
It is important that you check broadband availability in your area, and this can be done on-line by checking with any of the broadband internet service providers. Here we suggest some alternatives to the big players. Try looking in on www.solo.pipex.com/ or www.eclipse.net.uk
Web site loading performance is very important and web analysis tools exist to check the overall content and loading speeds of web pages. At PortraitDesigns we use the benchmark tool at the link provided here. Check out the performance of our site by clicking the link and using 'copy and paste' into the url http://www.portraitdesigns.co.uk