[thelist] maximum page load for users leave?

[Nick Wilson]

* and then Steve Lewis declared....
> >Are there any recent studies/stats on how many seconds a user will wait
> >for a page to load before giving up on the site?
>
> I was reading some last night and Jakob Nielsen recommends an absolute
> maximum 10 second load time.  His optimum was less than one second.  In
> several places he claims that users will invest approximately 10 seconds

Thanks Steve, do you have the link? I couldn't find anything on there
(at least not since 1997)....

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