How fast is your website

Website speed means how fast the requested page loads. In other words the time it takes to load all the contents, html, stylesheet (css), javascripts and images. There may be number of reasons depending upon different factors that might slow down the download speed .

Get a faster server or move to overseas servers or change the ISP. Yeah, that’s a good option.

But before we do that maybe we should check the page itself. It’s called “ Optimize Your Website “. Some items might be causing website response time took longer. For a quick check up, visit these guys. They can tell something.

1. http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze

This is the best tool I found so far. It shows you almost everything like Total HTTP Requests, total page size, Object size with download speed comparison, page objects with some comments. But this part I like most, quite usefull for a starter like me. It’s the

Analysis and Recommendations

You’ll see what’s o.k and what’s not. Just focus on what’s not … right ?

2. http://tools.pingdom.com

Pingdom tools has a detail of loading time for each file involved in a http request.  Each file will be listed with it’s size, path and loading time. Picture below is just a quick summary. You need to try to see it.

Cool.

3. http://www.webtoolhub.com/tn561353-website-speed-test.aspx

Mode simple :

Just like it sounds, it only show basic information about download time in each connection speed.

Mode Advance :

This option will generate a detail report. It shows all file(s) size (css, javascript & images) included in that http request but it doesn’t show time to download those file(s). It’s still a good report thou.

4. http://www.webpagetest.org/test

You’ll you can choose a location where you wanna test your website from , browser (IE7 or IE8), connection type/speed and some other options . I’d just take a  basic test to try it out.

Then it displays result in graphs, that what I like about this. Click images for larger preview.

5. http://www.iwebtool.com/speed_test

Just a simple test.

6. http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/speedtester.html

Just report file(s) size included in http request (css, javascript, images ). Too bad it only shows file(s) size. And as you can see in the picture, it didnt capture my stylesheets(css). Still it’s kinda usefull.

That’s all for now, Thanks.

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