Measure Loading Time

[TCH-Thomas]

I know there are places and programs that "sees" the site in different resolutions, but is there any for measuring loading times of a site. If measuring from different places in the world in same test, its a plus.

[hindixp]

Hi,

any LIVE URL? i'll let you know loading time from Typical Indian Dial Up.

 

anyways whats the size of your pages.

iam quite attentive to page size as my upcoming new version of site is 33-38k HTML page. images are 30-40 k extra.

 

what do you think, How does this site come up to majority of people?

 

In the time mean time you can check This analyzer

 

 

(will be back after a nap, Badly need that since last 36 hour desk)

[TCH-Thomas]

from Typical Indian Dial Up.

Well, jikrantz.se and tchwebring.jikrantz.se would be nice to find out.

 

How does this site come up to majority of people?

Fine I think, but I also think that many that visits my pages use high-speed connection. A few weeks ago I had the chance of testing my jikrantz.se through dial up, which was sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. So I figured that I need to find a service/program that let me find out in different speeds.

 

Sleep well Manu.

[TCH-Dick]

Thomas try WebXACT, they will give you the information you are seeking.

Edited August 4, 2004 by TCH-Dick

[hindixp]

Hi,

your site took a 25Minutes to get "done", however it was only images which took those extra seconds.

Dont panic as iam mostly on Dial up which others would just hate to work with.

 

I'll catch u tommorow for optimizing your site for Search engines,cause iam able to do a bit of this too.

 

Good Night.

[hindixp]

Thanks sir,

just before i fall on bed i found your reply with an very very interesting link.

 

Thanks and Regards,

[TCH-Thomas]

25Minutes

Manu, we really have to get you a better connection.

I dont know which speed that is but the link you gave me says 56K: 30.92 seconds.

[LisaJill]

I use the speed test that the firefox webdev extension uses. =)

[TCH-Dick]

Here is your site compared against a few common sites.

 

Google

11.12 kB / 00:00:01 on 56.6 connection

Microsoft

105.52 kB / 00:00:15 on 56.6 connection

Jikrantz.se

147.63 kB / 00:00:21 on 56.6 connection

Ebay

162.74 kB / 00:00:23 on 56.6 connection

[TCH-Dick]

I use the speed test that the firefox webdev extension uses. =)

Thanks Lisa,

That site actually gives you a range of connection speeds.

 

oops: I see Manu posted the same link, I need to slow down when I read.

Edited August 4, 2004 by TCH-Dick

[TCH-Thomas]

Thanks everyone.

 

If I understands Dick correct, I beat Ebay anyway.

[cak]

On my 56K:

 

jikrantz.se/ - 40 secs

tchwebring.jikrantz.se/ - 22secs

 

HTH,

Carol

[TCH-Thomas]

jikrantz.se/ - 40 secs = Will hopefully be faster when I get the timeto finish my redesign.

tchwebring.jikrantz.se/ - 22secs = Will hopefully be faster when I publish redesign in 1 or 2 days.

 

Thanks Carol

[Deverill]

My favorite is Net Mechanic - netmechanic.com/toolbox/html-code.htm which tells you the speed of the page load, common HTML errors, possible misspellings, browser compatibility and other info.

[hindixp]

Oh sorry Jikrantz it was 25 secs, i told you last nigt i was sleepy enough to make such stupid mistakes.

[TCH-Thomas]

lol, no worries Manu.

[rnmcd]

I have really found those links helpful!!

 

Is there a way to determine why my site appears to be loading slower?

 

I'm not sure if it is the server or if it is the additional coding to the site...

 

I was recently hosted elsewhere and since moving to TCH some folks have commented that the pages load slower. The only change I have made since the move to TCH is additional coding. The images haven't changed.

 

Sadly, I never 'timed' how long it took the site to load on the other host so I can't objectively compare it that way.

[TCH-Bruce]

Without a link it would hard for anyone to offer any help or suggestions.

[rnmcd]

Sure, here's the link:

 

Website

 

Try entering Listing ID: 11158 in the applicable field.

[TCH-Thomas]

Besides the suggestions above on how to check loading times I dont know any.

But I checked your time and it loaded in 9 seconds from Sweden, Cable (8 Mb), Firefox (for what thats worth).

[rnmcd]

I guess what I'm looking for is a way to compare the actual loading time (the above sites seem to do that) to what it should take to load a page of that size.

 

Let's say I have a 50kb page that takes XYZ seconds to load on DSL. I would like to know how fast it should load on DSL. Maybe its the server or the connection or the poor coding of the page.

[TCH-Rob]

That will be tough to pin down. What speed DSL? What are the network conditions? Speeds change constantly as internet traffic ebbs and flows. You will never get a set number that works all of the time.

 

Let’s say you have 256Kbps DSL, and your page is 50KB. Divide 256 kilobits by 8 to get 32 kiloBYTES per second. Now divide your 50KB by 32KB and you have 1.56. With that your page would load at a little over one and one half seconds.

 

The above example is a perfect world scenario. Now factor all the traffic that is using the same portion of the network that you are to get to your site.

 

New virus out and spreading? Now you have even more traffic to compete with. How things should work and how they do are entirely different things in the internet world.

[TCH-Bruce]

I tried your listing and saw it in under 2 seconds on a cable connection

[TCH-Dick]

Those tools are nice but I use this code in my pages.

 

>// put at the top of page
<?php 
$m_time = explode(" ",microtime());
$m_time = $m_time[0] + $m_time[1];
$starttime = $m_time;
?>




// put in footer of page
<?php 
$round = 3; // The number of decimal places to round the micro time to.
$m_time = explode(" ",microtime());
$m_time = $m_time[0] + $m_time[1];
$endtime = $m_time;
$totaltime = ($endtime - $starttime); 
echo "Page loaded in  ". round($totaltime,$round) ." seconds";
?>

[MikeJ]

The site www.webpageanalyzer.com (same as Lisa mentioned above) will give you a very rough estimate of how long your page should take to load at different speeds based on your page size and number of objects.

 

Just keep in mind Dick's solution above will show you how long the page took to generate, not how long it took to download and render in your browser.

[TCH-Dick]

Just keep in mind Dick's solution above will show you how long the page took to generate, not how long it took to download and render in your browser.

 

Good point, thanks for pointing that out

[rnmcd]

Thanks for the great information!