Worldwide,
users rang up US$354
billion
in e-commerce transactions last year. -IDG
News Service5/23/2001
50%
of online transactions are aborted before their completion,
the primary reason being poor
web performance.
-Newsbytes
5/7/2001
Site
visitors give up waiting for web pages to respond after only
eight seconds and will rarely return to a site on
which they have experienced long delays. -Zona
Research