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SPEEDing Your Website Visitors to Checkout

Written by: Tom Shapiro May 5th, 2009

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If you sell products or services through your website, speed is critical. People’s attention spans online are notoriously limited.
That means you need to capture your site visitors’ attention and compel them to click through your conversion funnel. The process should be as intuitive and seamless as possible.
If you distract them, if you leave them stranded, [...]

Tags: call to action, checkout, conversion, conversion funnel, eCommerce, load testing, load time, site-perf, site-perf.com, website, website conversion
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