Beginning with DotNetNuke 6.1, site owners have noticed a marked decrease in the amount of time it takes for their web pages to load. DotNetNuke has made it a recent priority to improve the page download speed by modifying the way requests are made to the server. In short, it makes DotNetNuke a much faster loading content management system immediately out of the box.

The New York Times spoke recently with some Google engineers and industry leaders on the role page speed has on impacting user behaviors. Some of the conclusions they come to are pretty stunning: