Slow sites don’t get complaints. They get abandoned.

Visitors to a slow site don’t complain, they leave. 19 of 20 NZ non-bank lenders we reviewed had pages slower than customers expect.

· Business

You have probably done it yourself: opened a website, watched a blank or slow-loading page, given up and moved on.

Your potential customers do the same. They arrive with a question and little patience. If the page keeps them waiting, the visit simply ends and the enquiry goes somewhere else.

Nothing necessarily looks broken. The website is online and the form still works. There is no error to investigate and no complaint to answer. You just get fewer enquiries than you should.

We reviewed 20 New Zealand non-bank lenders: 19 had pages slower than customers expect.

This is a business issue, not just a technical one.

Faster pages hold more visitors, support more completed enquiries, and help search visibility too.

The fixes are usually practical: make the first screen appear sooner, reduce what the page has to load, and stop people having to wait before they can act.

If you want to see your site the way a typical visitor does, get in touch and I will send you a free one-page report.

Graphic: 19 of 20 NZ non-bank lenders kept people waiting. Nobody complains. They just leave. A browser window with a half-filled progress bar and a loading spinner labelled waiting.