Response time

[Hans-Christoph Hobohm]

>Does anyone know of studies (formal or informal) on how long users of
>networked computer systems are willing to wait for a document page/image to
>be displayed?  


I have _heard_ about 5 seconds. And I always tried to stick to this criteria
for instance when building web-pages or database interfaces.


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