The visitor changed. Most homepages didn't.
Search used to mean browsing. Now it increasingly means arriving already decided, sent straight to one page by an AI search result, with no patience left for a slow reveal.
That page has to work immediately. Google’s own data backs this up: as load time slips from one second to three, the odds a visitor leaves jump by 32%. Stretch that to ten seconds, and the odds jump by 123%. That’s measured behavior, not a guess, and it holds whether the visitor found you through a search, a referral, or an AI answer.
We built The 3-Second Test™ to measure that exact window, the moment before a visitor decides to stay or leave. Not opinions about your website. What actually happens in it.
