Factors affecting Website Downloads and their Economic implications
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E-commerce has captured a significant market share and is expected to grow a trillion dollar business by 2005. Speed is the key to life on the Internet in general, and in Ecommerce in particular. The connection speed, size of the web page, number of forms, frames, and Internet users influence the success o f an individual website and eventually of the E-commerce. A typical user waits for no more than 8 seconds for the site to load. This paper also includes user expectations o f websites and the post bailout behavior. We also suggest some ways to speed up the download time of web pages. Website designers and computer design engineers can greatly benefit from this article.
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