Need Help In Measuring Web-site Load Time

[miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0]

Hey all,

I'm working on a University website and trying to optimize it (performance wise) according to the Yahoo Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Website guide.

 

So far I've to tweak a whole bunch of settings adhering to those rules and achieved pretty good grade for the site (according to YSlow).

 

What I intend to do now is measure the site load speed from various parts of the world. As there are no conceivable way of doing so sitting in a particular country, I request the board members to help me out a bit with this.

 

For measuring the load time, unless you're a scriptie, you'll probably have to resort to a plain old stopwatch (which is a part and parcel of all mobile phones these days).

 

The information I need from you is:

Approximate load times for the front page (cached and non-cached)

Country you are from

Your internet link speed

Browser make (IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome etc.) and Version

Here's what you should do:

Clear your browser Cache - I guess most of you know how to do that. If not write back.

Type the URL: http://www.stamford.edu/ - but don't load it yet

Fire up your stopwatch and press Enter to start loading the site

Stop the stopwatch as soon as loading completes and take the reading. That should be your non-cached load time.

Now repeat the process above once more. It should be a whole lot quicker this time as most of the site will be read from the cache. This is the cached load time.

 

Once you've got both the readings, please post back here along with the information I've requested.

 

Thanks a million to all the participants in this survey and looking forward to your active response.

 

Cheers,

m^e

 

P.S. If you want to get an approximate timings for your own site from a single source autonomously, you should try this new and really cool tool fromPingdom. The service is hosted in Sweden.

[rvalkass 5]

Uncached: 623.8K 6.953sCached: 3.09s(Timed using YSlow rather than a stopwatch)I'm in the UK, and my Internet connection is now 7.23mbps. I'm using Firefox 3.0.13 on Kubuntu 9.04.Hope that helps you out - and good to see you back m^e!

[inverse_bloom 0]

Uncached - 17.66Cached - 4.22Australia - Broadband wireless 600 kb/ps - winXp behind Virtual PC 07 on laptop. Firefox 3.Optimizing sites for speed is always enjoyable, good luck.

Edited August 6, 2009 by inverse_bloom (see edit history)

[Idolon 0]

Uncached: 6953ms - 8890msCached: about the same, but the page appears fully loaded around 3.0s. ?It looks like Opera serves the cached files while it finds out if the files have changed.I'm from the US, and according to Speedtest.net, my connection speed is 1420 kbps (1.39 Mbps).I'm running Opera 10.00 Beta 2, build 1651 (because you definitely need that much info ) on Windows XP. ?I used Opera Dragonfly's networks tools for timing rather than a stopwatch. ?I could give you a file-by-file breakdown of the load time if you wanted that too.There's also some cookie that keeps getting updated every fifteen seconds or so.Good luck!