Manchester United leads the way as the fastest Premier League website according to Apica tests
Despite being the most popular and lucrative football league in the world Premier League football teams were found to be a flop online, according to tests carried out by Apica.
Specialising in web performance and testing, Apica uncovered that Manchester United had the fastest responding website and Everton the slowest (the full results can be seen below).
Of the 20 Premier League clubs tested this month Apica found their sites to be of varying quality, with only nine of the 20 teams website’s fully loading within the acceptable three-second time period.
It turned out that the clubs that are best with the ball are also best on the net: Manchester United recorded a 0.4 second response time. Liverpool came a close second with 0.5 seconds with third place going to Arsenal’s response tome of 1.3 seconds.
Everton, Wigan and West Bromwich Albion all reported response times of over six seconds, with Everton recording the poorest website load time in the Premier League with a response time of 7.3 seconds.
Apica CEO, Sven Hammar, said the results were “surprising”, adding: “Less than three seconds is considered acceptable without risking visitors leaving your web site because it is too slow. These slow response times are damaging to the clubs’ brand, fan loyalty and revenues.”
The English Premier League on the web looks like this:
Manchester United 0.4 seconds
Liverpool 0.5 seconds
Arsenal 1.3 seconds
West Ham 2.0 seconds
Tottenham 2.1 seconds
Aston Villa 2.4 seconds
Fulham 2.6 seconds
Manchester City 2.8 seconds
Chelsea 2.9 seconds
Newcastle 3.7 seconds
Sunderland 3.9 seconds
Swansea 4.7 seconds
Stoke 4.8 seconds
QPR 4.9 seconds
Norwich 5.0 seconds
Reading 5.1 seconds
Southampton 5.1 seconds
WBA 6.2 seconds
Wigan 6.3 seconds
Everton 7.3 seconds