Questions tagged [load-time]
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Gtmetrix shows high loading time for first domain waiting time. How to reduce it
I am wondering, why is my Domain taking long time to load?
As per Gtmetrix timeline, first domain name propagation takes up to 953ms:
Blocking - 53 ms
Waiting - 843 ms
Receiving - 57 ms
Sometimes ...
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Should we improve time to first byte or Page Speed Insights score for SEO?
Google posted last summer that "page speed" will impact the search result rankings also on mobile devices. But I think there is a little confusion about the term "page speed".
The test tool which ...
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Long waiting time on page load may be caused by https?
As the screenshot show, there is 1.05s waiting time on page load and I have done some tests to figure it out that this is caused by https.
I uploaded a plain html with just hello world and tested ...
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Average header response time of a website
I'm building a link checker to check a huge amount of URLs for uptime and I'm currently thinking about timeout times. Do you know any statistics which provide the average header response time to have ...
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Optimizing perceived load time for social sharing widgets on a page?
I have placed the facebook "like" and some other social bookmarking websites link on my blog, such as Google Buzz, Digg, Twitter, etc.
I just noticed that it takes a while to load my blog page as it ...
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Prerendering vs. loadtime optimization
While loadtime optimization we turn many adjusting screws, which all have different efficiency and need different afforts.
Is it not better to prerender all, or most important, pages and to guarantee, ...
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What do the browser performance acronyms "HRBR" "TTFCP" & "RTT" mean?
They're used in this article on resource hints: https://medium.com/reloading/a-link-rel-preload-analysis-from-the-chrome-data-saver-team-5edf54b08715
I can't find then used anywhere else though, nor ...
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Why is serving cached content to logged in users against recommendations?
I am keen to get some more information on cached pages.
I currently have a store through wordpress/woocommerce and use hummingbird to cache pages.
On of the options is to opt to serve cached pages ...
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Long pause before loading my product thumbnails
I have a Wordpress website using WooCommerce, but my shop pages are really slow because it takes a very long time before my product thumbnails start to load. The page loads fine up till the moment ...
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Placing javascripts at the page's bottom and HTTP/2
Does the placement of javascripts at the bottom of html document still gives any loadtime wins, if the site runs on HTTP/2?
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Is there a way to measure specific dom loading time?
While there are so many web page and tools provided for measuring the time loading speed. They usually measure the response time, how many requests per page and so on?
Say, if I have a webpage ...
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Joining and compressing all javascript files together - good idea?
Curently, I avoid loading any unnecesary scripts on individual pages of my site. I have a class that remembers all javascript files that were requested during PHP processing and adds them to HTML.
I ...
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1Gb Video in high res: How to be downloaded in reasonable time into each user’s screen?
I have this 1 GB video in high resolution that I’ve uploaded to my Amazon S3 account in order to play it in my site.
The video is an online class with the professor in video, talking and some text ...
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What to use for rapid PageSpeed analysis — Google Insights or Chrome extension?
Which score is most reliable (and complete) to use when comparing different sites and pages to get a quick idea (e.g. between competitor websites without detailed analysis)?
I am asking because for ...
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Buying a domain in other country: larger response times?
I bought a domain in a very well know provider of domains in USA (Godaddy).
Now I want to use that domain for a site (local bussines) hosted in a server in Spain, and I'm wondering if I will get ...
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PrestaShop preformence with 100.000 + products
I am i the process of finding a replacement for an old web-shop (Compumail.dk), we are looking at a lot of possibility's and one of them is PrestaShop.
The site has in the area of 100.000 products, ...
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Potential issues with multiple home pages
I have a site where I want to have two different home pages: a general description page for anonymous users, and a dashboard page for logged-in users.
I am debating between two implementations:
Both ...
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testing random pages for uptime (part of an SLA)
We have outsourced hosting of a large website.
We have an SLA for response times of random pages. I.e. every minute a random page will be chosen from a pool of 30,000 pages and its response time ...
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Start Time of Page Load in Page Timings in Google Analytics
What's the start event for the 'Page Load Time' in the 'Page Timings' report?
I've read that GA uses NavigationTiming API. Is it v1? Is the start event performance.timing.navigationStart? Also, what'...
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Server time wait differs by the factor 10 on same server
I have two sites running on the same server. They use the same configuration (PHP version, WordPress settings, HTTPS, .htaccess rules etc.) While one site shows in Pingdom a wait time for images ...
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What does it mean to have "Web browser is waiting for data from the server" high on a speed test site. I have 21560.1s in wait time? [duplicate]
The web page took 22792 ms to load, used 119 requests, and weighed in at 1.7 MB.
The Google Page Speed performance grade for this web page is 70/100.
I'm looking to decrease my load times, but am ...
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How do I make redirection faster to www-ed and slashed variant? [closed]
I have redirection from example.com/blog:
--> www.example.com/blog (making site with www prefix, using .htaccess)
--> www.example.com/blog/ (to end links with slash /, because of WordPress ...
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With page load speed being a ranking factor, what speed optimizations do you recommend to prioritize? [closed]
My website has been becoming slow somewhere during development, according to visitors who emailed me, what speed optimizations do you recommend to priotize? Caching? CDN? Any input is very appriciated!...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Base64 encoded data URIs for images? [duplicate]
I have been seeing people using base64 encoding on a few small icons and styles, but nothing too important like the content itself.
I was wondering, is there an advantage to using base64 over a .png ...
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Trying to improve the server response time
I have used the Google Developer PageSpeed Test and it suggests this:
Improve server response time
Suggestions for this page
Long web server response times delay page loading. Reduce your response ...
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Measuring the page load time [closed]
Can anyone provide an overview of what the steps are to create a tool such a Pingdom's page load time tool? I see a lot of these out there that do essentially the same thing, but I am not sure how to ...
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Theme load speed - do a few seconds matter?
Here’s a questions for the devs and SEO guru’s … If we are looking at themes to help speed up the front end dev and design time on certain projects do we need to take into consideration the load speed ...
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Are static websites significantly faster than dynamic? [duplicate]
Lets say we have a blog site:
METHOD #1
When an admin creates a new blog post, it will be added to the database.
When a user loads the website, PHP will check the database for all posts.
METHOD #2
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How to reduce the load time on a page with a lot of iframes (social media plugins)
I have an overview page with links to the social media presence of all the teams taking part in a competition.
Basically, the page is a big table with, where appropriate, in the cells an iframe with ...
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Optimisation test services allude to 'inline script block #5', what does this mean
Optimisation text services like Gmetrix and Pingdom Tools often provide feedback like 'inline script block #5', what exactly does this mean and how do you go about identifying and solving this problem....
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What about img blob data affect for seo & client performance [closed]
in simple cms project with some picture lower 1mb , save all image as blob data in database (exp: sqlite) is good idea for files management...
How does this affect SEO? for example on: pageload web ...
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A light(er)weight twitter feed widget?
I'm using the "official" twitter feed widget, and I just noticed in Firefox's network inspector that it's adding +- 220 kB of data to my site at load time.
100 kB is the "widgets.js" file, the other ...
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What influences the loading of a web page? [closed]
What influences the loading of a web page? What does the web page load faster or slower?