How fast does a website load.
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Speed up XHR requests [closed]
I have a Yii project (PHP framework) running on Apache2, where I use AngularJS for the front-end. I have some AJAX requests, but they are kind of slow... sometimes it reaches 2.5 sec.
I'd like to ...
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Advice scaling website [duplicate]
We could use advice on a scaling/ops issue.
We have a simple website that runs on Rails 3.2.12 and uses MongoMapper instead of ActiveRecord. There is one database call that sporadically performs ...
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Why is there a huge gap before in my WebPageTest after the HTML has been downloaded?
I am trying to improve front-end performance of my website, and there is a 3.5 second lag before the user actually sees anything, and I'd like to improve this.
Here is a screenshot:
And here is the ...
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Why is loading speed of a website important for SEO?
I see everywhere on the internet how to optimize loading speed of a website but no one says why it's important for SEO.
Inevitably, there are reasons why Google has decided to take this factor into ...
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How to test the speed of a page that is guarded behind login page?
For public page, I can use pingdom.com to calculate the response time/uptime of a page over a certain period of time.
However, pingdom cannot time the response time of a webpage guarded behind a ...
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Connection speed for a website from UK to Australia
I need to open a website only for Australian customers. The fact is that our provider's servers are all housed in the UK.
What do you suggest is better? Leaving our website in the UK? Or buy a ...
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Impartial comparisons on cloud / shared-hosting speeds with different providers [closed]
Are there any impartial comparisons on speeds of cloud hosting or shared hosting from different providers?
I've googled and found a few snippets of info, but not sure that they're impartial ...
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How to specify expiration of cacheable resources?
I'm trying to speed up a wordpress site -- this site: http://richardclunan.net
I'm following the observations here: http://gtmetrix.com/reports/richardclunan.net/9ps7Zc0j
The first item says: "The ...
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How can I benchmark my servers network speed? [closed]
I´ve rented a server online and i wonder how to check the bandwidth possibilities of my rented server. My problem is that I only own a 16.000 kbit/s internet connection and i want to know if it is ...
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How to find out if my hosting's speed is good enough?
There are lots of different online performance tests:
Google PageSpeed Insights
iWebTool Speed Test
AlertFox Page Load Time
WebPageTest
Also there are several desktop/client software such as:
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images based website speed
I have a wordpress site which 90% is based on images.
I've installed Wp-Super-Cache, now it seems to load a little bit faster.
I've made a speed test on Pingdom Tools:
Page size
4.7MB
Load time
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wordpress sites are slow on shared hosting but plain html/css sites are fast
ive got a shared hosting account, unlimited sites, unlimited gb, unlimited bandwidth ect ect.
Of course because its shared and a cheap one at that theres too many sites on each server and it all ...
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check server speed / response time
I was reeled in by cheap hosting unlimited (well kinda of cheap apart from i had to by a yr upfront). and the moral of the story is its awful, im trying to find a reason for them to let me leave and ...
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Can I host a high traffic website at home?
I've been searching this up on google but I can't formulate my google search with the right terms to find an accurate answer to my question.
Is it possible to have a super-fast connection at home to ...
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How to limit the FTP bandwidth for one user?
I have no experience in webmastering, so sorry if it is a simple question!
I have a VPS and about 30GB files on it and I am trying to download them to my PC. So for transfering them I made an FTP.
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Does just-ping determine a website's accessibility and/or speed?
While looking for a webhost I wanted one that had good connectivity around the world, and ran their (shared hosting) test IPs on just-ping.com. This is a part of a sample result:
München, Germany: ...
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Google Webmaster Tools - Why site performance graph goes up and down, even if the site has never changed?
This is my site 7 months graph from Google Webmaster Tools site performance util.
As you can see the graph goes up and down, with big differences: less than 1 second up to 5 sec.
Since I never ...
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Question about web hosting speed
I started using a VPS with HostGator not long ago,
they have 9 levels of VPS and I started out with level 3.
I'm testing a page on the website and it doesn't take too long to load,
something like 2 ...
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How does server connection speed affect website performance?
A web host I'm considering quotes their server connection speed for their basic package as '15Mb/s burstable.' They offer an upgrade to a more expensive package with a '35Mb/s burstable' speed.
I ...
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Slow website response? How can I fix this issue?
I have pingdom monitor on my website:
http://stats.pingdom.com/t68xhgex256f/375513
For North America (big target market) the response time is 1-2 seconds. This is far too slow.
Is there anything ...
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Cache external static scripts?
In my never ending quest for a faster website, I thought perhaps I could cache some scripts. I'm using Yslow to rate my site, everything is pretty much A (which is great, our website on Pingdom loads ...
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How is this site so fast?
how is the website http://dftba.com/ so fast?
when i click a link it loads right then? what makes it work like this? how do i make it work like this on my site?
some of the objects on the site are ...
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Ideas to improve website loading speed?
Are there any ways in which I can improve the loading speed of a website?
I know that Google is really pushing loading speeds and with the popularity of mobile websites it's now imperative that sites ...
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Statistics about development of average connection speed and latency over the years
Are there any statistics about the development of average internet connection speed and request latency from households to major sites over the years?
I find this information very useful for ajax ...
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How to show content for logged-in vs logged-out users?
We have a set of pages with the following urls:
www.mysite.com/info/page1.html
www.mysite.com/info/page2.html
www.mysite.com/info/page3.html
Each has a structure as follows:
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How is Apple's enormously image-heavy site served so fast?
Took a profile of the "Smart Cover" page on Apple's site using Pingdom. It's requesting 241 objects for a total page weight of 3472.6 KB! An absolute mammoth.
How does this possibly translate into ...
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Critique of SEO of this HTML [closed]
I'm designing a new site which I want to be as SEO friendly as possible, fast and responsive, semantic and very accessible. A lot of these things, embarrassingly are quite new to me. Have I miss ...
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Raw coding vs Joomla / Drupal
Currently my sites pages load in about 500ms. The html, css, javascript, php, python, perl, and sql queries are totally unoptimised. If I recreate the site using Joomla, will my site slow down?
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Is there any overhead on making my webapp traverse more folders?
I understand there is a need of placing different categories of resources in separate folders for the sake of organization. But is there any noticeable decrease in page load speeds accompanied with it ...
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URL rewritten pages take much longer to load
(Same issue as http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987754/how-to-diagnose-htaccess-speed-issues-via-rewritelog but more clearly explained below)
We have a site which has scripts like this:
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drupal site speed increase
I'm using a drupal site with a theme from rockettheme.
The users are member users. The problem is for unknown reason the site is very slow. Takes around 20 seconds to open the page.
I have tried ...
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Hosting speed tests?
Are there any sites to test the speed of your hosting? I know there are sites that will tell you why your site is slow, e.g. - YSlow, etc., but how about the speed of bandwidth you get from your ...
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Should JavaScript referenced in the head section be served from the same hostname as the main document?
I was under the impression that for the best performance, Javascript should be treated as static content and served from a cookieless domain along with CSS files, images, etc.
But Google says here: ...
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Is there any way to improve the speed of Google Adsense/Analytics?
Whenever I run Google Page Speed or YSlow, many of the optimisations suggested stem from my use of Google Adsense and Google Analytics.
For example, YSlow says there are "9 external Javascript ...
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Page speed affecting ranking in practice
Articles like this one discuss Google possibly taking speed into account for ranking factors.
Are there any other search engines which already take speed into account for search results? or perhaps ...
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What type of websites shouldn't use a cache?
Is there ever a time when you should use caching? Like for frequently updated pages? Or, should you always cache?
Please give examples and reason?
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How do you enhance your websites speed without compromising the design and access?
How do you enhance your websites load speed without killing the design and accessibility? File compression, CDN, Gzip? What are the best tools for doing so?
For example, Google has optimized their ...
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How can I reduce the costs of loading large JS libraries?
If I am using a large Javascript library for my page, how can I make sure that this does not impair the user's use of the site?
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How can I simulate a slow connection for page load?
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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What's the best way to load Javascript into a page to optimize performance?
Is there a way to load my JavaScript into a page that will make it load faster?
