# Why your restaurant website is slow, and how to fix it

If your site takes more than a few seconds on a phone, many guests leave before they see the menu. The causes are usually the same few things.

## Step by step

1. **Huge photos.** Photos straight from a camera can be many megabytes each. Resize them for the web.
2. **A PDF menu.** PDFs are slow on phones and hard to read. Put the menu on the page as text.
3. **Too many add-ons.** Chat widgets, pop-ups and trackers each add loading time.
4. **A heavy builder theme.** Some themes load a lot of code for features you never use.
5. **Test it.** Open your site on your own phone on cellular data, not Wi-Fi, and time it.

## Website, POS and app

- [Restaurant website checklist: 12 things it needs](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/guides/restaurant-website-checklist)
- [Online ordering with your POS: Clover, Square and Toast](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/guides/pos-online-ordering)
- [Is a restaurant app worth it?](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/guides/is-a-restaurant-app-worth-it)

## What the free check measures

The free check opens your website like a guest on a phone and shows how fast it loads, whether there is an Order button, and how many pages Google can find.

EatFuti is in Des Moines, Iowa, and works with independent restaurants across the United States, most of all in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas and Texas.

## How it works with EatFuti

1. **Run the free check.** Three minutes, no sign-up. See your Google page, where your Order button goes and how your site does on a phone.
2. **Say yes.** Send your photos and menu, or we take the menu from your POS or online. Online ordering is live 48 to 72 hours after signup.
3. **Your website goes up.** Built for you from your photos, menu and reviews, right after ordering is live. You approve it before it goes up.

## Questions owners ask

### How fast should a restaurant website load?

As fast as possible; aim for the menu to appear within a couple of seconds on a phone.

### Does speed affect Google ranking?

Google considers page experience. More importantly, slow pages lose hungry guests.

## See where your restaurant stands today

[Run the free check](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/) (Free · 3 minutes · no credit card). Call (515) 493-0243.

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