Time To Interactive (TTI).

The faster a website is, the better. One way to speed up the website is to gather information on Time to Interactive, among other things. What is Time to Interactive and how important is it to your website? We explain it to you on this page.

What is Time to Interactive?

Time to Interactive (TTI) is a measurement method for determining how long it takes for a Web page to become fully interactive. The lower the Time to Interactive, the better: your website should be as fast as possible to get the optimal results.

The workings of Time to Interactive

Speed is everything on the Internet. Did you know that website visitors drop out if a website takes longer than 3 seconds to load? 3 seconds is very little, but reducing this time is very costly when it comes to retaining visitors. Among other things, Time to Interactive makes it possible to measure website speed.

The Time to Interactive has everything to do with the speed of a Web site: the visibility of content takes precedence over the interactivity of a Web site. In doing so, you may be sacrificing user experience. Full commitment to a good Time to Interactive sometimes means that although the website appears fully loaded, as a user it is not yet possible to do anything with it.

The impact of Time To Interactive on SEO

Time to Interactive certainly plays an important role in the SEO of a Web site or page. It is a way of determining how much time it takes for the whole page to load. Improving Time to Interactive may pay big dividends, including for search engine optimization. Keep in mind, however, that the user experience may go down.

My advice

We recommend checking what the website’s current Time to Interactive is. Based on this, it is possible to make changes. Among other things, certain modifications are possible in JavaScript that have a positive impact on the TTI, which also boosts SEO. A developer or programmer will help you make changes so that you benefit!

The most complete book on website speed

I’ve written so much about speeding up websites and everything involved that I like to divide it into different sections; general, tools, speed improvement points and tips. Feel free to see and consult all the links below to learn more about tools and tips for speeding up your website.

General

• What is the website speed
• Website speed: The division between marketing and development
• The influence of SEO on UX
• The influence of web design on SEO
• SPAs and SEO
• What are the Google Core Web Vitals?

Tools

• Autoptimize
• Pagespeed.Compare
• W3 Total Cache
• Tools Pingdom
• Google Pagespeed Insights
• GTMetrix

Verbter points for speed

• First Contentful Paint (FCP)
• Time To First Byte (TTFB).
• Image for Largest view with content (LCP) preloaded
• Enable text compression
• Reduce the CSS
• Total Blocking Time (TBT).
• Speed Index
• Reduce JavaScript
• Largest Contentful Paint
• Avoid an overly large DOM
• Delete unused CSS
• Remove unused JavaScript
• Deliver images in modern layouts
• Connect in advance to required origins
• Preventing obsolete JavaScript from being delivered to modern browsers
• Use an efficient cache policy for static items
• Remove duplicate modules from JavaScript
• Avoid multiple redirects
• Encode images efficiently
• Use lazy loading
• Load important requests in advance

General tips

• Tips for quickly loading a video
• Using Edge SEO for a faster website
• Installing a Content Delivery Network for SEO
• Optimizing images for SEO
• The influence of hosting on SEO