I have a fast server, and a reasonably fast home Internet connection. How can I simulate my page loading on a slow connection?
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FireFox Throttle is a FireFox extension that should do it. Sloppy is a proxy which slows down your connection so it should work across browsers. Source: http://www.devcurry.com/2010/07/simulate-slow-internet-connections.html | |||
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Fiddler Web Debugger is an excellent HTTP proxy debugging tool for Windows that includes a modem speed simulation feature. Fiddler is freeware. I also like Charles Web Debugging Proxy, a similar tool. Charles can also throttle the connection speed. Charles is commercial software, but has a free trial available. What I like most about Charles is that it is cross-platform: Being Java-based, it can run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. (You didn't mention which platform you're on, but it's probably one of those :-) | |||
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Try out http://www.webpagetest.org/test. You can run a test from any of their remote servers around the world and see how fast you page loads from those location. It will even let you use a dial-up speed or other slow speeds for most locations. | |||
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A quick & dirty solution is to upload a large file to try to choke your outbound bandwidth, this should slow down your inbound connection, and is usually easier than trying to similarly choke inbound bandwidth. | |||
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