Webpage visitors will only queue for 10 seconds

AN ONLINE shopping survey indicates that while punters are prepared to queue at the ordinary shops, they have the attention span of a mayfly on speed when they shop online.

The Packet Exchange survey said that more than 70 per cent of surfers will bog off if they have to wait more than 10 seconds for a web-page to download.

Apparently more than half of online shoppers will leave in high dudgeon if they think that the webpage is poorly designed or crashes.

More than 70 per cent have cancelled an online transaction mid-way because they are miffed at the slow speeds.

The survey also revealed that people shop online to get cheaper goods, they just wished it was all a bit faster.

However these are the same people who are prepared to wait in a queue behind half a dozen overweight people buying their elephant-sized orders in a fast food place staffed by teens who were selected on the basis that they could not communicate. µ