Reason why we go for static website
- Time-Saving: Static website is extremely quick to develop for web developers. Compared to dynamic website, developers could create static website page much more faster.
- Cost-Effective: In comparison to dynamic website, static website is cheaper to develop.
- Easy to index: For search engine such as Google, Bing etc, static website page can be easily crawled and indexed as it is just a series of coded HTML and CSS files.
- Better for SEO: As mentioned above, because of easy indexing, static website boost visibility of business in the search engine results pages and get higher ranking.
- Fast to transfer: Since static website has far simpler structure than dynamic website, the whole static website package could be easily and quickly transferred from side to side without much processing time.
Website Speed Matters
Loading time or loading speed is the crucial factor of page abandonment. The users has very few patience for pages that take long time to finish loading. According to chart below, when the page loads more than 15 seconds, nearly half of users would abandon and leave the page. From the business side, this indicates that 1 second page delay could potentially cost millions in lost sales every year. So, very second counts both in business world and user side. However, based on the survey, most users thought that their phones load slower than their desktops. This would be the key policy for the e-commerce.
