Website speed

"Ronaldo9" <jinlangzhou@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1179300722.774268.282780@l77g2000hsb.googlegr oups.com...
> Hi,
> I am a newbie in website building. I just built a website for freeware
> and shareware download. As my host is local in China, I don't know
> whether is convenient for the people outside China to visit my site.
> Could you guys help me test my website speeds.
> I want to know whether is CRAWLS for your to browse when you local in
> US or European. And all kinds of suggestion are welcome.
> I swear there is no virus or spam in my website. You all can visit it
> safely.
> My website is http://www.sharewaredown.com.

Doing a simple ping test from the UK half the packets timeout. Those that
don't report an average time of 420ms. Pings timeout faster than
http-requests, but isn't good.

Doing a more complex http-ping (i.e. requesting an http server response but
not loading any page) I get an average response time of 0.9seconds. That's
very much on the slow side.

Opening it up in a browser, a menu-bar appeared after about 10seconds, after
a minute waiting for anything I normally give up and close the browser.
1minute 45seocnds and the page contents appears. This is too slow. Reducing
the number of tables might help (because when the browser encounters a table
it won't render any of the table contents until it reads the end of table).

It was much faster once my browser had cached some of the contents. The
search page seemed quite nippy, so I suspect the problem lies mostly with
your homepage.

> Besides, I have test the host in some website monitor service company,
> and the result is as below. Is the data shows a good condition or a
> bad condition?
>
> Checked From Result KBytes Secs Kbps
>
> Las Vegas USA OK 106.1 2.88 301.71
>
> Orlando USA OK 106.1 4.33 200.76
>
> London UK OK 106.1 4.31 201.79
>
> Shanghai CHINA OK 106.1 4.83 179.87
>
> Chicago USA OK 106.1 6.07 143.12
>
> Oklahoma City USA OK 106.1 4.08 212.91
>
> Hong Kong CHINA OK 106.1 2.87 303.07
>
> Frankfurt GERMANY OK 106.1 7.23 120.23

What's bad about the number is the amount of data - 106KB for the page. This
seems a bit on the high side. I did a view-source, saved the file and the
HTML came out at 113KB (plus 16KB for JavaScript, 41KB for images and 8KB
for CSS). That's BIG. Don't worry too much about image sizes. CSS and
JavaScript, assuming its common to all pages will at least be cached. I'd
suggest reviewing how the page is put together with the intention of cutting
the HTML size down to say a target of 50KB. That should help the loading
times - but still doesn't fully account for the almost 2 minutes to load in
my browser.

Hope this is useful.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian