I am working on a retail site. I have done some log file analysis and there is really bad progression from the home page to the product pages. There are obviously some issues with the web copy but I was also wondering about download times. The site has lots of images and I used a web page analyser to look at page download times etc. with the following results: Object Size Totals Object type Size (bytes) HTML: 55817 HTML Images: 270847 CSS Images: 17363 Total Images: 288210 Javascript: 61071 CSS: 10623 Multimedia: 0 Other: 0 External Objects External Object QTY Total HTML: 1 Total HTML Images: 55 Total CSS Images: 3 Total Images: 58 Total Scripts: 7 Total CSS imports: 5 Total Frames: 0 Total Iframes: 0 Download Times* Connection Rate Download Time 14.4K 323.20 seconds 28.8K 162.10 seconds 33.6K 139.09 seconds 56K 83.85 seconds ISDN 128K 26.37 seconds T1 1.44Mbps 3.20 seconds Clearly there are some serious issues here. Anybody got any advice? Also what download time should I be working towards? Should I go for <8 secs and if so on which type of connection speed. Also anybody know of other tools to test download speeds to confirm these results?
Well, I dont specifically know for a retail site...but I myself wont wait for a site if it takes more than 7-9 secs... your stats look really bad... and I think u should work toward 56k conection as it is the usual on imo..., sitereportcard.com is the site i know that u can use for stat purposes....
Converting to web standards (XHTML, CSS for layout) will cut down on HTML bytes. Your javascript looks large. Are you including only necessary functions?