Planning a Digital Marketing Promotion? Take This Website Speed Test First.

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You spend time and money creating the right content to get your audience to visit your website. Unfortunately, a slow website can stop this whole process in its tracks. Google estimates that up to 40 percent of website visitors will leave a mobile website that takes longer than three seconds to load.

How long does your website take, and what can do you to speed it up? Fortunately, Google has a tool that will help with both. You can check it out here. Before you get started, it's important to note this tool will test your speed based on a 3G or 4G mobile connection. Your site will load much quicker on Wi-Fi. Beyond that, you'll typically want to test the speed of each page, which you can do via the Google Analytics Page Speed Report.

That said, let's take a look at my website.

This article was written by Terry Rice, and originally appeared on Entrpreneur.com