There are ways, but… :/ Why do you want to do that? I’m sure there’s a reason for it that makes sense, I just can’t think of one for now!
But, as for how to do it… You can add in something like this (untested):
add_action ("init", "my_slowdown_function");
function my_slowdown_function () {
sleep (1); // This makes the system "sleep" for this number of seconds.
}
depending on your needs there are few ways to delay the website, server side or browser side. I find this very interesting so I hope you can share the reason.
Thank you catacaustic for your reply.
Actually one of my client is curious about how many people wait until his site fully loads in browser even if it runs very slow. This website is about automobile showroom. I don’t know why he is curious about this. Perhaps it’s a kind of survey.
Wow… Just… Wow… :/
That is strange. But, if that’s what they want, that’s what they can get I guess. The problem is that there’s no really reliable way of testing if people wait until it all loads or if they leave before something happens, so it’s pretty much a big waste of time that is only going to loose them visitors in the long run.
But hey, if they are paying the cheques, then they can get what they want.
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Actually one of my client is curious about how many people wait until his site fully loads in browser even if it runs very slow.
Double wow. That sort of exercise is sure to drive visitors away.
Usability studies suggest that most people will leave if the site/page hasn’t loaded within 10 seconds.
Just place some abnormal large images and resize them in HTML to 1 x 1 px..
The solution would be to use javascript and ajax … build a script that will call the ajax every second, and the second as param, this way you will know if the user had left the site or not, delay the site as catacaustic suggested or any other way, but if I were you i’d start from a 3 seconds delay test it on a lot of users, then and only then grow the delay to 5 seconds… and so on until I get no visitors… If you do this I’d be very curious about the results so sharing a graphic/statistic over here will be appreciated.
Thank you friends, I was not expecting so many replies to this question. Still I am not sure if I’ll get the results. If I become successful then I will post here my results and details other details. The client is non-technical and doesn’t know that this is waste of time but he pays me small amount for services I provide him.
