Navigation aids should be designed accordingly. To make a website digestible, make it possible to swallow every page whole. In other words, the purpose of every page should be immediately apparent to users. Keep functionality uncluttered. Even the homepage should not have more than three or four dynamic features.
Every study shows that web users are terribly impatient people.
Fast computers and software help, but fast performance can have as much to do with design as with technology. For instance, graphically crowded pages take too long to load. Intensive data processing can also be deadly. Web behavioralists tell us that something should happen on-screen within one second after every mouse click, so if a dynamic function requires processing time, show the user an interim message or icon. Make it social.