--- title: 5 Common Mistakes Developers Do that Affect Page Load Time description: The load time of a page is directly related to the website’s perceived performance. If it takes more than 3 seconds to load, you will lose half of your... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/5-common-mistakes-developers-do-that-affect-page-load-time-gd9nq40ot twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 5 Common Mistakes Developers Do that Affect Page Load Time | daily.dev og:description: The load time of a page is directly related to the website’s perceived performance. If it takes more than 3 seconds to load, you will lose half of your... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/5-common-mistakes-developers-do-that-affect-page-load-time-gd9nq40ot og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gD9nq40ot.png og:image:alt: 5 Common Mistakes Developers Do that Affect Page Load Time og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 5 Common Mistakes Developers Do that Affect Page Load Time **[Bits and Pieces](https://daily.dev/sources/bit)** · 7 min read · 21 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary The load time of a page is directly related to the website’s perceived performance. If it takes more than 3 seconds to load, you will lose half of your visitors before they even arrive on your website. The faster your page loads, the more engagement you will have from the user. Slow sites, kill conversions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@berkmann18** · 2 upvotes > TL;DR: > 1. Making too many HTTP requests > 2. Not using a CDN > 3. Loading large files > 4. Loading every resource at the same time > 5. Using too many redirects > > > I'll add that one should keep an eye on Lighthouse results (a tool that measures performance, web best practices, SEO, a11y and progressiveness) and also look at https://github.com/thedaviddias/Front-End-Performance-Checklist **@zvi** · 1 upvotes > In my opinion, the most important is "Loading all resources at the same time" --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/5-common-mistakes-developers-do-that-affect-page-load-time-gd9nq40ot) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"5 Common Mistakes Developers Do that Affect Page Load Time","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/5-common-mistakes-developers-do-that-affect-page-load-time-gd9nq40ot","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/5-common-mistakes-developers-do-that-affect-page-load-time-gd9nq40ot"},"datePublished":"2020-12-17T00:52:33.575Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"The load time of a page is directly related to the website’s perceived performance. 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