--- title: Page Speed is Critical to Your Digital Marketing description: If you wont sit through a slow loading website, why would you expect potential customers to? A slow website destroys most chances of converting web traffic into new customers. 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It sounds like a short amount of time, but when you're waiting for a website to load, it's an eternity. In fact, I'm willing to bet that after 5 seconds, you've already abandoned the page. Remember dial-up? That's what a slow website feels like to users. So why should your website be any different? [Local websites](http://staylisted.com/websites.html) are built to convert customers every step of the way, but if it's not loading, they'll never get to that first step. Users want instant gratification and your website should supply that. 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