Webpage Loading Time?

[ponmayil]

Hi Friends,

Currently my web page loading time is 2.3sec. Its is good or need to be reduced.

Anyone suggest to me, web page loading time limit?

Thanks for Advance.

[thebitbotdotcom]

That should be fine. Remember, page load time is a function of both your server AND the connection speed of your visitor.

[csm]

Check with Google Page Speed addon for Firefox/Firebug.

If Google Page Speed score is under 90... optimize your site.

2,3 seconds is the loading time for you... and for others? Check with Google Webmaster Tools about the loading speed.

[Gogo]

One more tool
http://siteloadtest.com

[jimtsap]

Originally Posted by csm

Check with Google Page Speed addon for Firefox/Firebug.

If Google Page Speed score is under 90... optimize your site.

2,3 seconds is the loading time for you... and for others? Check with Google Webmaster Tools about the loading speed.

Right Csm! Page speed score should be at least 80-90. Be sure you optimized you image files, compress and tidy your code. Put your script at the bottom of the page. And use external css file. Image sprites will be a good trick too. Also check on alexa your website's speed.

PS: I recently had a 100% raise of my speed on google's WMT with no obvious reason. This nightmare lasted for 1-2 weeks. Now my speed is back to normal..... It was just google glitch!

[D3n!ss3_gUrL]

Originally Posted by ponmayil

Hi Friends,

Currently my web page loading time is 2.3sec. Its is good or need to be reduced.

Anyone suggest to me, web page loading time limit?

That's already good.

For me, any page that loads less than 5 seconds is good. Anything lower needs work out.

[webcrafters]

Originally Posted by csm

Check with Google Page Speed addon for Firefox/Firebug.

If Google Page Speed score is under 90... optimize your site.

2,3 seconds is the loading time for you... and for others? Check with Google Webmaster Tools about the loading speed.

The Firebug addon is my favorite

[lynxus]

It will be fine.

As others have mentioned check what google webmaster tools states for your site...

Some things you can do to speed it up is
- Minimise your JS ( if you have any )
- Change images from png etc to smaller JPG images.
- Dont include files from other servers ( they may slow down your site )

I would say the MAJOR thing on site speed is the images..

[csm]

Sometimes @lynxus, depends on the site and the layout.

I think the major slow-down stuff are 3rd party scripts/ads!

That's what I have discovered.

[hilaryaustin]

some other scenarios that can cause your site to load slow are:

file formats
If you have big file formats like png you better change them to .jpg/jpeg

To much multimedia
To much flash and other animated things embedded on your site can also trigger and can make your loading page slow. If possible if you have a banner that is animated try change it to something simple.

File sizes.
Like multimedia or flash things or even video this can slow your loading page.
Among of them also are pictures that if they are occupying huge spaces on our page then start to minimize or change there sizes. So that your loading page will run smoothly.

[csm]

To much multimedia
To much flash and other animated things embedded on your site can also trigger and can make your loading page slow. If possible if you have a banner that is animated try change it to something simple.

I agree with Flash, it can slow down. With animation via JavaScript/jQuery it does not have to slow down.

If you want to know more about Front-End performance and optimizing, how to speed up loading process... I recommend reading this blog:

http://www.cookielessdomain.com

In these posts I am explaining what Front-End performance optimizing is about and how to get a really fast loading website.

I know, this could be seen as self promotion, but it is not! I want to help you to understand why a site is loading slow and where the problem is located.

Any more questions regarding Front-End Performance Optimizing?

PM me then, thank you

[AdamC]

2.3 seconds is pretty good, but make sure to check how the loading times are for other users. I'm sure that the waiting times a user will tolerate will shrink as broadband connections become more common and faster. Keep on optimizing your site too.

[Quinterling]

Try Gzip to help compress your webpage

[Quinterling]

If you have access to your Root files where your web files are stored, usually public_html. You can add either one of these two codes to your .htaccess file.
Using your preferred FTP, download the .htaccess file and make a copy, just in case
Next open a html editor, most people use Notepad. Then drag and drop the .htaccess file onto Notepad. Add one of these codes (Line space below the last set of codes already in your file, Don't change anything else).
To compress using Gzip add this;

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml application/xhtml+xml text/javascript text/css application/x-javascript
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip

BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

To use D_Flate add this;

<ifmodule mod_deflate.c="">
<filesmatch .(js|css)$="">
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</filesmatch>
</ifmodule>

Save. Again just click the save button not save as and rename.
As far as I'm aware you can use these codes on most server types but if you do have a problem after trying either or both just go back to your original .htaccess file you saved. You did save a copy first, didn't you?

[jimtsap]

Originally Posted by Quinterling

Try Gzip to help compress your webpage

I just want to add a comment on that...

That would help google speed but it will spent some time on the uncompressions on the visitors CPU. Also many hosts don't allow gzip, in order not to overload the server's CPU....

[csm]

Originally Posted by jimtsap

I just want to add a comment on that...

That would help google speed but it will spent some time on the uncompressions on the visitors CPU. Also many hosts don't allow gzip, in order not to overload the server's CPU....

Not really true.

The problem is (or was) that those hoster do (or did) not cache the contents.
That's why they disabled gzip to prevent CPU load for every gzip request.

I have an older webserver running with several thousands of accesses every day (over 250.000 every month).

The configuration is like this:

- static content on cookieless domains
- gzip CSS/JavaScript/Images/Flash files
- gzip text/html files
- cache static content (CSS/JavaScript/Images/Flash files)
- cache static text/html

The expiration date for the static content is 365 days.
I run memcache daemon, disk_cache module, mod_deflate (for gzipping), mod_expires, mod_headers, ...

The server is sleeping most of the day, it's a dual core AMD with 4GB RAM only.

If you configure your server correctly there is no problem with high traffic websites.

Uncompressing gzipped content on the clients browser is ... minimum CPU load and time consumption.

You do not even feel the difference.

Oh by the way, on my webserver is a mail-server with spamassassin/clamav doing his work, too. It produces higher CPU load then the Apache webserver.

[jimtsap]

Originally Posted by csm

Not really true.

The problem is (or was) that those hoster do (or did) not cache the contents.
That's why they disabled gzip to prevent CPU load for every gzip request.

Thanks for your correction... I have hosted my site to a gzip hoster and now I am to a hoster with no gzip. I seen no problem at all without gzip, but I asked them about enabling gzip. They tried to convience me that gzip would add 1 sec or more for the uncompression.

Csm, how bad is for a hoster to not cache the contents and how can I be sure they cache it?

[csm]

I can not say if it's good or bad.

I do not know how old the machines are they are using, how many sites/users are there (if it's shared hosting/virtual machine).

We are using dedicated root servers.

Using caching is IMHO one of the main techniques to keep the machine on low CPU load.

You can see if they use caching e.g if you load the site with Firebug enabled and you see "304 Not Modified" messages when you reload the page (look at the picture).

[jimtsap]

Thanks Csm!

My host has a superb server room right inside the same building of the best internet provider in Greece. My neigbours are 2 other low traffic sites.

Well done for the dedicated root servers you use.

On firebug my site shows on the page refresh, "304 Not Modified" , so they use caching

Thanks again for the screenshot and everything!