Talk:8-second rule

bad info
There have been several studies that contradict this. The amount of time a user is willing to wait is inversely proportional to the importance that the user places on the transactions. The last study I saw was: These numbers were from a tetsing course on testing e-commerce sites taken December 2000. References are not on me. --Walter Görlitz 00:11, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 5 seconds for general actions
 * 15 seconds for important tasks
 * 30 seconds for actions related to financial transactions

Response times requirements:
 * less than 0.1 seconds
 * Button clicks
 * clien-side drop-downs
 * less than 1 second
 * Java applet execution started
 * Page navigation started
 * less than 10 seconds
 * Page navigation completed
 * Server-side search results
 * less than 1 minute
 * Java appley download
 * Jakob Nielsen's book Usability Engineering as quoted in Software Quality Engineering's Web/eBusiness Testing Version 2.1

I could not find the previous response times in my notes from the course. --Walter Görlitz 07:10, 23 February 2006 (UTC)