{"id":899,"date":"2013-06-25T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T00:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.macquarietelecom.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T05:43:14","slug":"is-your-webhost-slowing-your-website-and-losing-you-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/news\/is-your-webhost-slowing-your-website-and-losing-you-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your webhost slowing your website and losing you money?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the difference between a good website and a bad one? A website that makes the sale or the one that loses a customer? In today’s multi-device and highly competitive space, a fraction of a second can make all the difference.<\/p>\n

Power Retail, experts in the\u00a0retail industry,\u00a0have found that 57% of consumers abandon a site after only 3 seconds of waiting for a page to load. 8 out of 10 then won’t return to a site after a single disappointing experience.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, to improve the user experience and performance of a website many businesses focus only on the user interface and website design. Even with a beautiful and creative website, your hosting infrastructure<\/a> could be holding back your site performance more than any changes to the look and feel.<\/p>\n

Help is at hand. Two of our experts – Stuart Mills (Head of Digital and SaaS Hosting) and Volker Rath (Hosting Services Consultant) – have taken part in a webinar with TechTarget<\/strong> to shine a light on the questions you should be asking about your website hosting.<\/p>\n

Stuart and Volker will talk you through some of the research to explain why this is so important to every business owner with a website, before moving on to things to check for to ensure you’re getting the right performance from your provider.<\/p>\n

The webinar covers many practical pieces of advice, including:<\/p>\n