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    How Fast Should Your Website Load? (And Why It Matters)

    June 18, 2026 4 min readBy Carson Gahm

    Here's a stat that should make every small business owner nervous: 53% of mobile visitors leave a website that takes more than three seconds to load. Three seconds. If your site is slow, more than half your mobile visitors are gone before they even see what you offer.

    Why does speed matter so much? Because people are impatient. When they click a link or type in your URL, they want information now. Every second of delay is a second they might decide it's not worth waiting and head back to Google to find a competitor whose site loads faster.

    Speed also affects your Google rankings. Google openly uses page speed as a ranking factor — slow sites rank lower. So a slow website doesn't just lose the visitors who arrive; it also gets found by fewer people in the first place.

    What makes a website slow? Usually it's a combination of things: oversized images that haven't been compressed, too many plugins or scripts running in the background, cheap hosting, or code that hasn't been optimized. DIY website builders are notorious for this — they're convenient, but they're often bloated and slow.

    A professionally built website is fast by design. Images are compressed, code is clean, and the site is built to load quickly on both desktop and mobile. Every site I build is optimized for speed from day one — because a fast site isn't a luxury, it's a necessity.

    Not sure how fast your site is? Google 'PageSpeed Insights' and test your URL — it's free. If the results aren't great, call or text me at (989) 350-5433 and I'll show you what's slowing it down and how to fix it.

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