Head Guru Posted February 13, 2003 Posted February 13, 2003 Hi, We have a customer who is paying a web dev team to dev his site. However, after they have neared completion the customer feels the site is not responding as fast as it should, and is slower than most other sites. After a long discussion he agreed to let some of our forums users test the site to see how it loads. Here is what I am asking. Broadband Users report back. Here is what we need to be able to satisfy this issue. Give us your feeling on site load times. This site is phpnuke based. Here is the link to the index.php http://discussindia.com/html/index.php now please download this file and report back on overall server speeds. http://discussindia.com/test.zip I would really like to determine this issue for the customer. He is a very nice person who just wants the answers. As always THANKS Quote
rayners Posted February 13, 2003 Posted February 13, 2003 Copied and pasted from my terminal window: >stilgar% wget -c http://discussindia.com/test.zip --21:41:43-- http://discussindia.com/test.zip => `test.zip' Resolving discussindia.com... done. Connecting to discussindia.com[66.11.163.185]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1,382,683 [application/zip] 100%[====================================>] 1,382,683 155.78K/s ETA 00:00 21:41:52 (155.78 KB/s) - `test.zip' saved [1382683/1382683] Quote
Head Guru Posted February 13, 2003 Author Posted February 13, 2003 So im thinking thats purdy darn fast... lol Thanks david Quote
curtis Posted February 13, 2003 Posted February 13, 2003 On my broadband the index page loads in 2 seconds The 1.3 mb download from start to finish was 28 seconds Everything seems fast enough to me. curtis Quote
Head Guru Posted February 13, 2003 Author Posted February 13, 2003 root@server14 [~]# wget -c http://discussindia.com/test.zip--21:48:54-- http://discussindia.com/test.zip => `test.zip' Resolving discussindia.com... done. Connecting to discussindia.com[66.11.163.185]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1,382,683 [application/zip] 100%[====================================>] 1,382,683 561.21K/s ETA 00:00 21:48:57 (561.21 KB/s) - `test.zip' saved [1382683/1382683] Quote
Head Guru Posted February 13, 2003 Author Posted February 13, 2003 This is on my home DSL modem which is 1.5/384. This is max download speed for my modem. Quote
TCH-Rick Posted February 13, 2003 Posted February 13, 2003 I loaded the site several times and refreshed several times as well. It loads ok for me (using cable) but all the headings are .gif files and load at different times so it seems to load slowly. Total load time for the page was from 3 to 8 seconds each time. I checked my overall net connection and it was running at normal to above normal for me. I also downloaded the test.zip and it downloaded at 220 to 250 KB/sec which is pretty much what I normally get. Hope this helps. It's been a long day so I hope this is semi-coherent. Quote
curtis Posted February 13, 2003 Posted February 13, 2003 After being on dial-up for a longggg time and then moving to broadband anytime a 1.3 file downloads in under 15 min is fast to me. curtis Quote
TCH-Rick Posted February 13, 2003 Posted February 13, 2003 After being on dial-up for a longggg time and then moving to broadband anytime a 1.3 file downloads in under 15 min is fast to me. curtis After being on a cable modem for three years, if my transfer rate drops below 100 KB/sec I quit and try again later... Quote
dualstudios Posted February 13, 2003 Posted February 13, 2003 I'm on broadband (cable) - and I got about 3.5 seconds on the page, and about 10 seconds on the download (125k). Seems adequate. One thing you may want to mention, is the site uses a lot of images ( all of the nav/ top/ banner/ left are images ), so naturally this will affect page "load" - even though it not your connection speed, it based upon your processor and how quickly your computer can place all the images in place. I would recommend using text/ styles for all the text images. My professional opinion only. HTH Quote
KevinW Posted February 13, 2003 Posted February 13, 2003 I'm on a workstation connected to a server which is connected to a Verizon DSL (max 768 download/128kb upload). Download of the file took 16-17 seconds, tracking it using System Mechanic: Start Test: 2/12/2003 10:40:49 PM Test Type: User Specified Download from http://discussindia.com/test.zip Operating System: Windows XP -------------Settings Used------------ [intel® PRO/100+ Management Adapter] Maximum Transfer Unit: 1500 Tcp Receive Window: 256960 Time To Live: 64 Black Hole Detection: False Auto-Detect Maximum Transfer Unit: True Maximum number of simultaneous HTTP 1.0 Connections: 10 Maximum number of simultaneous HTTP 1.1 Connections: 8 Tcp Options: 1 - Window Scaling but no Timestamp Options Fast Retransmission and Recovery support value: 3 Support for Selective Acknowledgements: True --------------------------------------------- Data Transfer Start: 2/12/2003 10:40:49 PM Data Transfer Complete: 2/12/2003 10:41:06 PM --->Total Data Received: 1389572 bytes --->Time to Complete Transfer: 00:00:16:563 --->Average Speed: 83391 bytes per second --->Peak Speed: 192717 bytes per second And from my server, the same download (after clearing the buffer) took 17 seconds. -kw Quote
Lianna Posted February 13, 2003 Posted February 13, 2003 DSL Page loads in just under 3 seconds. File download in 10 seconds. Looks like my results are just the norm for what everyone else is seeing. Great response time, IMO. Lianna Quote
Guest ladyshanae Posted February 13, 2003 Posted February 13, 2003 On broadband here, page loads in about 2 seconds. Download took maybe 10 seconds. Seems fine to me Quote
SEO Posted February 13, 2003 Posted February 13, 2003 Modem Speed & Download Times 14.4k - 58.89 seconds 28.8k - 30.45 seconds 56k - 16.47 seconds ISDN (128k) - 8.40 seconds T1 (1.44 MB) - 2.57 seconds HTML document: http://discussindia.com/html/index.php Document size (Kb): 19.13671875 Total Images size (Kb): 77.66796875 Too big in my opinion, I have a high speed connection too (500-600kb) but most others are not like us. I would alter things (see below). You know, one jpeg file (the little black and white image) is contributing to over half the size: http://discussindia.com/html/modules/My_eG...llery/Art/1.jpg 41.8291015625 kb Also, adding HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes to your images and WIDTH attributes to your TABLE tags will help display ther page quicker. Hope this helps, D. Scott Quote
darkwoof Posted February 13, 2003 Posted February 13, 2003 Index page took about 10 seconds to load, but the images apears one after another continuously so it looked okay. File download took about 7 seconds total, averaging about 180kbps. Quote
shammer Posted February 13, 2003 Posted February 13, 2003 The site took less than 5 sec. for me and the zip downloaded at 130KB. Quote
Skip Posted February 13, 2003 Posted February 13, 2003 The download speed from Maryland to the site was 2 sec. and the download of the zip file was 8 sec. on DSL. 1.5m down and 128K up.. Skip Quote
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