What is a slow site costing you a month?

Speed arguments go in circles until someone attaches money to them. Your numbers, one honest assumption, a figure you can act on.

Your numbers

From your analytics. A rough figure is fine.
The mobile figure, not how it feels on your own wifi. Don't know it?Get your real number →
Under 2.5s is a normal target. Below 1s is rarely worth chasing.
Your current rate, at your current speed.
Per enquiry won or per order. Use what one is worth to you.
7% is the commonly cited industry rule of thumb, not a measurement of your site. Change it and watch how much the answer moves — that swing is the honest margin of error.
Estimated cost of the delayper year, at your current speed
  • Now — conversions a month
  • Now — revenue a month
  • At target — conversions
  • At target — revenue
  • Extra conversions a month
  • Extra revenue a month

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⚠️ These tools will disagree with each other, sometimes wildly. That's normal — they test from different places on different simulated devices. Trust the pessimistic one, because it's usually describing a real person on a phone.

Read this before quoting the number

  • This is a model, not a measurement. It applies a general speed-to-conversion relationship to your figures. Your site is not the average site.
  • Speed is rarely the only problem. If your conversion rate is 0.3%, the page is not slow — it's unconvincing. Fixing speed will not rescue a page nobody wanted to act on.
  • The gain flattens. Going 8s → 3s changes behaviour. Going 1.4s → 1.1s mostly changes a score. Spend the effort where people actually notice.
  • Test it properly first. Run PageSpeed Insights on mobile, or open your site on a phone with wifi off and count. Guessing your current speed makes everything below fiction.

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