Can anyone recommend a good tool/program that checks your pages and returns the load times? I'm looking for one that actually looks at server speed and doesn't just add up the file sizes and code. Tanks!
Do you want to know how fast the server can generate dynamic pages etc? You can time that pretty accurately in your scripts. Or are you looking at server bandwidth? If you only check load times from your computer to the server, that's going to be affected by network factors and won't be very accurate.
Yes, I know it will be affected by a bunch of factors but that's what I need. Do you know of any? I had one but the free trial ran out and the company (based in Germany) is no longer around.
I dono't know if this will help, but I love this site, it really helps a lot, and you can see how long your page takes to load at different speeds http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/