How Download Speed Can Affect Website Performance

This article explains how download speed (bandwidth) can affect website performance across a network and on a browser or user agent.

Website performance is affected by many different factors, such as network conditions, load on the server, activities on the browser and many other variable factors. As these factors vary dynamically web performance metrics can fluctuate considerably. This is especially true of network conditions which for smartphone users download speed can vary considerably from being a very fast 40+ Mbps to a very slow 2 Mbps connection. 

Download speed is measured as the number of bytes per second that is transferred from the internet to an end-user device, and in this.....