A recent Gomez study on website performance metrics found that 32% of consumers will abandon a website if it’s too slow. That’s almost one third of all shoppers!

A more alarming statistic: 37% of people surveyed said they would NOT return to a slow website. You could be losing more than a third of first time buyers if your site is not snappy.

Is your web host causing your site to be slow?

Last week we examined the truth behind uptime guarantees in hosting. A 100% uptime guarantee is not really what most people expect.

Today I’ll try to briefly discuss one of my pet peeves when it comes to hosting – The promise of unlimited hosting.

In part 1 of this series, we took a look at misleading claims by some web hosts with regards to the green movement. In today’s post, we’ll take a lot at the 100% uptime guarantee that many hosts proudly proclaim on their websites.

It’s not all it’s cracked up to be… it’s not even close in many cases.

I’m amazed at how far some large name web hosts will go in their advertising and marketing on their websites. It seems the word “truth” is not in their vocabulary…

Here are a few things I’ve seen recently that really sttttretch the truth.

While most websites all use their own domain name (ex: lexiconn.com, cnn.com, etc) it’s always a good idea to make sure you actually “own” your domain name.