New research shows tablet users want instant access to websites

Tab Times reports on results from a survey of mobile users by Keynote Competitive Research, which shows that 60 per cent of tablet users expect to wait less than three seconds to get to a website.

Smartphone users aren’t cutting site vendors much slack either: 64 per cent say want websites to load within four seconds.

The need for speed is hardly restricted to mobile devices; Keynote found that 48 per cent of PC web users want download speeds faster than two seconds.

But the survey of over 5,000 mobile users showed a fair bit of frustration over download speeds, particularly on smartphones. Asked to list frustrating mobile experiences over the past two months, two-thirds of smartphone users cited "web pages slow to load."

The next largest pain point felt by nearly half of the panel surveyed was "website not optimised for smartphone."

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