Check the load time of your site

Everyone knows how annoying it can be having to deal with websites that take forever to load. There are recent researches, in fact, confirming that 75% of the Internet users do not return to sites that take longer than four seconds to load.

In order to check the load time of your site you can use an online tool called “Website Speed Test“. It allows you to enter up to 10 websites, and the results display the size of the website, the total loading time and the average speed per KB.

By the way I would suggest keeping your load time below 2 seconds. In the near future I will post an article with tips to make your pages load faster.

Daniel Scocco on February 2, 2007 Subscribe to our RSS Feed

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29 Responses to “Check the load time of your site”

Sridhar on February 2nd, 2007 6:29 am

Mine supposedly loads in 0.85 secs.

\o/
Daniel on February 2nd, 2007 6:52 am

that is good, it has a lot to do with the web host also.
Ramen Junkie on February 2nd, 2007 7:38 am

Ironicly, that page seems to take quite a while to load.
engtech on February 2nd, 2007 8:09 am

Me thinks I need to compress the content on my blog.

01 engtech.wordpress.com 141.7 KB 0.79 seconds 0.01 seconds
Daniel on February 2nd, 2007 8:30 am

engtech, that is a pretty good speed, you have a large page but at least it is loading fast!
menghua on February 2nd, 2007 9:05 am

engtech.. that’s really fast!

Seriously, I doubt the usage of this tool. The speed varies every time I click CHECK. How do they determine the speed anyway? Which location do they tested from? hmm…
Mike Empuria on February 2nd, 2007 9:38 am

01 http://www.empuriabravaonline.com 7.23 KB 0.33seconds 0.05 seconds
02 http://www.thelifeofmatthew.com 27.15 KB 0.67 seconds 0.02 seconds
03 http://www.wifestillwoman.com 6.28 KB 0.37 seconds 0.06 seconds

Much quicker than I expected but I make sure my homepages are quick to load. Sometimes I think that Google Analytics and Adsense slows a page’s loading time and I don’t think that these figures represent that.
Irish Church Lady on February 2nd, 2007 9:51 am

Very interesting tool. My main blog takes 6.72 secs to load. I’ll be interested in your post on how to shorten load times.

Just came across this blog recently BTW. Good stuff here!
Daniel on February 2nd, 2007 10:23 am

menghua, I think that the speed varies even for the same website due to network factors. The average speed should be consistent over the time, though.
Mike Empuria on February 2nd, 2007 10:34 am

Follow Up:

I was looking at this for my empuriabrava site and the Web Speed Test views the page as being 7.23kb in size. However, the elements that make the page are as follows:
header = 0.94
index = 5.96
footer = 1.16
image = 25.8
css file = 6.8

Total Page Size = 40.66kb - a big difference from the 7.23 being tested.
Daniel on February 2nd, 2007 11:28 am

Mike, you are right about the inconsistency regarding the file sizes. I guess the service only consider part of the website structure, say the HTML code.

Check out this other service, it is not reliable for the speed but it seems to break down the files that composed your website:

http://www.websiteoptimization.....s/analyze/
Roberto Alamos Moreno on February 2nd, 2007 11:47 am

Hi Daniel,

Excellent tool, I didn’t know it. From now on I will use constantly to check my site’s speed.

Good advice as usual
engtech on February 2nd, 2007 1:17 pm

My CSS file is 30k alone. I was shocked by the size, I didn’t pay attention to how fast the speed was.

One of the tricks I just did to try and reduce bandwidth usage is moving to excerpts except for the main page. This is a big hack because I can’t actually edit the template to use excerpts (because I’m hosted on wordpress.com).

http://engtech.wordpress.com
Johnie on June 16th, 2007 9:50 am

I liked this site, it’s neat. Good job! Visit my sites, please:
Jack H on February 17th, 2008 8:12 am

I think my clean design is doing the trick, I have load time, 0,53 sec.

Must be the fastest blog to load in Sweden.
kriz cpec on March 30th, 2008 1:10 am

Thanks.
kriz cpec on March 30th, 2008 1:10 am

Thanks for the tips.
arwind on May 8th, 2008 1:33 pm

It is a great tool i have checked it with my site http://www.adeptinfotech.com
arwind on May 8th, 2008 1:36 pm

My site load time is <1 s
its http://www.adeptinfotech.com
Megha on June 3rd, 2008 12:06 pm

Wow.. what a tool. I will recommend it to my friends too.!
Megha on June 3rd, 2008 12:07 pm

I had a doubt about my website’s loading time: http://www.send-giftstoindia.com but not any more…..

Thanks
snake on June 4th, 2008 11:14 am

1 http://www.gmc–booters.com/php/index.php 29.51 KB 0.53 seconds 0.02 seconds

i believe i finnally built me a php skin that loads quick enough
racing classifieds on June 8th, 2008 12:09 pm

haha, I have a racing website now!