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I know that I have complained about the speed of my own site, but I thought it would be interesting to have some scientific evidence of the speed of our various sites/hosting providers.
There is a site called Pingdom: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
You can enter your URL in their test box and it gives you a lot of information about how long the page takes to load, what is loading and where issues might be.
My home page loads in 14 seconds (slower than 95% of website tested!!)
An image page loads in 12 seconds or thereabouts (slower than 80%)The home page has sometimes loaded in 29 seconds, and the image slower, but these were the last tests. Most of the time is in the “wait stage”
I’m on a shared hosting plan with BlueHost.
How about your site?
Steve
http://picturebreeze.com
Tested from Dallas, Texas, USA on September 17 at 10:51:14
Page size
2.4MB
Load time
3.03s
Requests
80
Perf. grade
63/100
Your website is faster than 52% of all tested websitesKeep in mind that this test was initiated from Texas and the actual web server is in Germany.
Also, the slideshow is rather large and slows the page significantly down.I hadn’t come across your test site before but I just ran it on my site (Bluehost shared hosting):
September 17 at 11:28:15 from Dallas, Texas, USA. The web page took 7.24 s to load, used 102 requests, and weighed in at 3.8 MB.
grade 66/100
Time Spent per Content Type
Image 53.06%
Script 24.08%
HTML 10.39%
CSS 10.02%
Other 2.45%Time Spent per State
Connect 41.98%
Wait 33.54%
Receive 24.08%
DNS 0.38%
Send 0.02%Would VPS make a big difference?
@markscatesphotography wrote:
Would VPS make a big difference?
I’d say keep it simple as long as you can.
http://www.imagoborealis.com
Tested from Amsterdam, Netherlands on September 17 at 19:57:19Page size: 498.1kB
Load time: 4.83s
Requests: 54
Perf. grade: 79/100Your website is faster than 32% of all tested websites
That’s not great but very reasonable considering I am on Bluehost shared hosting.
On a side-note: I haven’t installed the WP Super-Cache plugin, yet. I’ll repeat this speed test after I’ve come around to do so. Curious about the difference it will/won’t make…
Test Results:
Page size
521.2kBLoad time
2.16sRequests
48Perf. grade
86/100Quite good since my slideshow sucks up 2MB to load which is 4 to 5 times more than a default page.
Load time
3.33sPage size
2.8MBRequests
72Perf. grade
88/100
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