What is a fast loading page?
Ideally, pages should load in no more than 6 seconds, or your visitor may decide to go elsewhere. (Yahoo loads in 3 seconds). Our cutoff point is 10 seconds on a 28.8 modem. • What is a secure online order form? Secure online ordering shows your customers that your site is planning on staying around awhile, and that you care enough about both your site and your customers to make ordering easy and secure. While PayPal is an excellent ADDITIONAL feature, if you don’t have your own merchant account, then you should answer NO to this question. • Evidence of site being regularly maintained? No one wants to view stale information. If you’re serious about your site, you will maintain it on a regular basis – our cutoff is at least once a month. We also need to SEE that the site is being maintained by either a Javascript last updated script, or by manually typing “Page last updated on xx.” Without seeing evidence on the page, we don’t know when the page was last updated. Please note, putting “T
