Hi Fellow Forum Members, I just need a couple of people to check out The First Site In My Sig, (Must See Videos)for loading speed. Some people tell me it loads okay and some say a little slow. I have revamped the site and I don't want it to be a heavy loader for user experience. The speed may depend on other peoples download speeds but I want to at least obtain a Happy Medium. Comments Welcome Thanks
Hello, I know some tool to check your load time: http://www.internetsupervision.com/ hope help to monitor your site.
Thanks for the comments-Appreciated I have been compressing images and cleaning up some code, that should increase the speed a little more. I believe it is a little faster now. Users should have a better experience.
Ooh, really slow. White page for a second and a half, then it loaded partially, showing the gray boxed background and all content. However, I had to wait another 5 seconds to be able to read the site because the black content bg color was not yet loaded.
It was very slow, if you leave it like that not only will it tick off your visitors but it could very easily get you penalized by search engines.
Very slow for me too--using Firefox then checked it in IE--same thing. Will check back later to see if it is any better. Good luck with it!
CheckW.com will let you know, among other things, the load time of your website (and any website/webpage for that matter) You can click this link for statistics specific to your link: http://checkw.com/http://thecomedynet.com/ To compare load times, you can try another website, for example: http://checkw.com/google.com
Yeah, it definitely is loading faster than before. Good job. Perhaps you could also load javascripts in the footer instead of the header to speed it up even more.
Thanks for the info to all. I did check with checkw.com and it says 0.43 seconds. I will try out some of the other suggestions and see what happens as well. People get more and more impatient by the day and I know the best of content doesn't add up to anything if it is never seen. One of the many variables of website survival--Speed
Jeez, how many connections does that make? Loads and loads by looking at the status bar in my browser. Google Page Speed says: Enable gzip compression Leverage browser caching Minimize DNS lookups Combine external JavaScript Minify CSS Optimize images Optimize the order of styles and scripts Specify image dimensions Minimize redirects Remove unused CSS Serve static content from a cookieless domain Put CSS in the document head Minimize cookie size Use efficient CSS selectors http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/ Needs FireFox and FireBug but well worth it. Same with ySlow which rocks: Grade F on Make fewer HTTP requests This page has 27 external Javascript scripts. Try combining them into one. This page has 5 external stylesheets. Try combining them into one. This page has 14 external background images. Try combining them with CSS sprites. Grade F on Compress components with gzip There are 21 plain text components that should be sent compressed Grade D on Put JavaScript at bottom There are 7 Javacript scripts found in the head of the document Grade F on Reduce DNS lookups The components are split over more than 4 domains * thecomedynet.com * www.google.com * wau.tynt.com * pagead2.googlesyndication.com * googleads.g.doubleclick.net * 2leep.com * rotator.nbjmp.com * widgets.amung.us * xslt.alexa.com * mg.dt00.net * ab.newsblock.dt00.net * stats.wordpress.com * track.mybloglog.com * www.statcounter.com * s3.amazonaws.com * server1.opentracker.net * www.visitorville.com * www.youtube.com * nbjmp.com * flash-mp3-player.net * www.thecomedynet.com * whos.amung.us * www.today.com * www.blogcatalog.com * humor-blogs.com * xsltcache.alexa.com * nbimg.dt00.net * www.lduhtrp.net * windyroad.org Grade C on Minify JavaScript and CSS There are 3 components that can be minified * http://thecomedynet.com/wp-content/plugins/rane/ajax.js * http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/s/a?... * Inline script tag #11 hth - both those tools are fantastic and well worth getting, both are free too so there's no excuse other than laziness!
Thanks Andy for the Firebug and yslow links. I think everyone who doesn't have them should implement them. I have been tinkering around with them and my Pagespeed has gone from a 58 to a big 71. Still things to do.
My ySlows are 99 blog (A), 91 V2 (A) and 87 V1 (B) and that's my Page Speed result above. I lost a few days in optimising but should have a lot to gain from a nifty site from both a customers / visitors perspective and bot ability to crawl perspective.