For Impatient Web Users, an Eye Blink Is Just Too Long to Wait (Published 2012)

Arvind Jain, a Google engineer, pointed out the loading speed of individual elements of a website on a test application used to check efficiency, at Google offices in Mountain View, Calif.Credit...Peter DaSilva for The New York Times Wait a second. No, that’s too long. Remember when you were willing to wait a few seconds for a computer to respond to a click on a Web site or a tap on a keyboard? Th