The Wait stage

Did you notice that it takes a second or so for the search results page to load fully? As human users, before we type in boxes or click on links, intuitively, we know that we have to wait for the page to complete loading before we can do anything. Robots are not like that at all. If we don't stop it from doing so, the robot will attempt to look for the search results immediately after clicking the Search button. All pages take time to load, even if only for a split second. Robots do not wait and even before the page is fully loaded, it would assume that there were no results to be found.

This is where we introduce the Wait stage. It is a very handy action to slow the robot down in everything it does at the appropriate time. ...

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