Web Page Load Time
| Manoj Jasra - Friday, February 23, 2007 6 Comments |
I have been experiencing slow website load times over the last little while so I thought I'd investigate and find out what the causes were.
The first tool I used was: Web Page Analyzer which has the ability to analyze all the various components and code blocks of a website. The main areas of importance include:
- Page load time at various Internet connection speeds
- The size and number of objects within the specified page
- Detailed Analysis explaining a list of recommendations.
My blog's recommendations included compressing images, reducing the total number of images, optimizing JavaScript/CSS, reducing the number of scripts and reducing the overall size of the page.
Secondly I used: OctaGate which quickly showed the load times for every widget, script and feed item on the page. From its analysis I was able to determine that one of my alternate feeds coded in the meta tags was taking 4-5 seconds to load.
Both of these tools should be used frequently to monitor website load times because making your content readily available to your visitors is one of the most important things you can do.
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Manoj, give a try to WSOP ...
Thanks Sergey, I will check it out.
Firebug for Firefox does nice per item load time. Getfirebug.com
Awesome, compiling a nice little list now.
I would also recommend to use this online free tool - http://Site-Perf.com/
It measure loading speed of page and it’s requisites (images/js/css) like browsers do and shows nice detailed chart - so you can easily spot bottlenecks.
It's very detailed and accurate, supports a lot of features like Keep-Alive and HTTP-compression.
Also useful feature is that this tool can measure quality of internet link of your server.
Unfortunately OctaGate chokes on Omniture tracking pixels/JS it seems.
Webpagetest does the same but better imho:
http://www.webpagetest.org/
Also I have written a handy Javascript that measures page load time.