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Please check my website speed

by jamescovert
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Hello, my site was painfully slow and was attracting a bounce rate of high proportions.

Have since reduced all images, tiled the background and menus with small css files and have reduced the header from 110kb to 20kb.

Please pass your own conclusions as to whether you think things are ok, or any other tweaks i can perform to speed my baby up.

Thanks in advance, you are life saves in the cyberworld.

James

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  • Profile picture of the author alexcercel
    Pretty fast on my end. I'm on a cable network.
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  • Profile picture of the author jimstoddard
    Three tests...Min load time .04 seconds/Max 2.4 seconds cable.
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    • Profile picture of the author jamescovert
      Thanks for your inputs, which suggest things are going to be better for users.

      My concern for changing things was due to google analytics suggesting in site performance that my site was 82% slower than other websites.

      In places saying my homepage takes 7.4 secs.

      Which is definately incorrect.

      Can anyone explain this more to me, why google analysis is giving me these results.

      Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author phpbbxpert
    It's loading in a little over 2 seconds for me which is pretty good on my connection with a WP site.

    You have a 404 coming from a broken image link in the CSS that should be fixed.
    HTML Code:
    /****** RSS ICON ON HEADER ******/
.rssicon
{
  display:block;
  float:right;
  background-image: url('images/.png');
  background-position: center right;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  margin-right: 204px;
  margin-top: 4px;
  height: 80px;
  width: 80px;
}
    Other than that your http requests are pretty low compared to most sites I look at. Yours are at 19 which is great for a WP site.
    You could shave a little on the home page by spriting the first 4 blue images at the top center. Making them one and using CSS to display them will turn those 4 http requests into 1.

    You could even do the same with the background - repeated images and shave another 5 or so requests.

    But over all it is looking good. I have done a lot of load testing on WP sites for people and yours is by far in the best shape in that department. So your on the right path.
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  • Profile picture of the author phpbbxpert
    That would be hard to say, but this is my best guess.

    A server 2 server connection is extremely fast in comparison to a normal user browser 2 server connection.

    When a bot is visiting a site it is server 2 server, the searchs happen in a blink of an eye.

    So my best guess is Google uses an algorithm to calculate what the speed would be on the average browser 2 server connection based on the data size and HTTP requests.

    So it's most likely calculating a dialup 56k connection in that analysis also.
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    • Profile picture of the author jimstoddard
      Google's page load analysis basically involves resolving DNS, setting up TCP connections, transmitting HTTP requests, downloading resources, fetching resources from cache, parsing/executing scripts, rendering objects on the page & then evaluates how well your pages either eliminate or shorten the maximum "best practice" criteria set in the analysis from the minute the page request is made until the minute the page is fully rendered by the browser.

      It's a simulated user experience & the resulting analysis represents a"perfect world" scenario & not completely accurate...results are merely indicator of *potential* area's of improvement. You did everything right, saw the numbers, looked into it, did some optimization (reducing a 100+k header to 20 is a good thing) but don't expect a perfect score or overly concern yourself with results. As "best practices" change, so will your results. Perfect scores from Google won't get/keep your site in their listings. Perhaps a script took a bit longer during the analysis, Google got stuck for a few seconds on some code...who knows. It's only meant to give you some form of measurement in your development
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      • Profile picture of the author pdhana
        Hi,

        Some times java scripts take longer time sending request. Do you use any javascripts ? First check your network. Goto command prompt and traceroute and see how long it takes then you can start looking at your site.
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        • Profile picture of the author adeleabrahamse
          The site that you provide here is really nice and good looking site. I really like this site very much. As per my opinion Some times java scripts take longer time sending request.I really like to take part in such a discussion.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vasuu
    It loads in 3 seconds from here
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    • Profile picture of the author marimar
      I use cable network : 1.53 seconds
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  • Profile picture of the author TheHawk
    Loading pretty fast.. 0.4 seconds..
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  • Profile picture of the author alcymart
    0.4 seconds here! fast enough.
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  • Profile picture of the author bilzz
    yea its pretty fast on my end. 0.4 seconds too
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    • Profile picture of the author jamescovert
      Thanks everybody, that will do me

      Think i will check over some things using firebug so it looks better to google.

      Speed is good as a consideration of many factors in the SE's

      Cheers everyone, lets close this
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