June 13 2007
How fast does your site loads?
This is one question that according to me all the webmasters should have a decent idea about.
Ideally studies show that a site should load with in 6 seconds. (+2)
And believe me this has a lot of affect on your user experience. Just imagine about the impact a user will have if your site takes 10-15 seconds to load and your competitor’s site loads in 5-6 seconds.
Here are some of the ways that can help you in optimizing your site speed.
- Make sure you don’t have any unnecessary line breaks and spaces in your page. This will help you in decreasing the size of the page which obviously decreases the site loading time.
- Hosting images, CSS and JS files in a different domain. This is a debatable issue but I think this can help considerably. Will be posting a detailed post on this very soon, so watch out.
Some of the common tools that will help you knowing the size and loading time of a page are:
Hi,
You can also try the new DebugBar verison (starting with 4.1) (http://www.debugbar.com) that gives you timing info for the requests of a page.
Hope this helps.
JFR
Would surely try this!!!
are we talking about pageload time for users o for Robots?
For user I think it majorly depends upon how fast the internet connection is, what do you say?
Yes but doing camparison the other way like if for a certain user at certain internet connection, speedier the site loads more interest he takes in browsing ahead. Depends upon the nature of sites too. Google.com opens in flash while its sure that a photographer’s site will take time.