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  • #254
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    steveh
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    I know that I have complained about the speed of my own site, but I thought it would be interesting to have some scientific evidence of the speed of our various sites/hosting providers.

    There is a site called Pingdom: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

    You can enter your URL in their test box and it gives you a lot of information about how long the page takes to load, what is loading and where issues might be.

    My home page loads in 14 seconds (slower than 95% of website tested!!)
    An image page loads in 12 seconds or thereabouts (slower than 80%)

    The home page has sometimes loaded in 29 seconds, and the image slower, but these were the last tests. Most of the time is in the “wait stage”

    I’m on a shared hosting plan with BlueHost.

    How about your site?

    Steve

    #2817
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    Andre
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    http://picturebreeze.com
    Tested from Dallas, Texas, USA on September 17 at 10:51:14
    Page size
    2.4MB
    Load time
    3.03s
    Requests
    80
    Perf. grade
    63/100
    Your website is faster than 52% of all tested websites

    Keep in mind that this test was initiated from Texas and the actual web server is in Germany.
    Also, the slideshow is rather large and slows the page significantly down.

    #2818
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    JoAnnSnover
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    I hadn’t come across your test site before but I just ran it on my site (Bluehost shared hosting):

    September 17 at 11:28:15 from Dallas, Texas, USA. The web page took 7.24 s to load, used 102 requests, and weighed in at 3.8 MB.

    grade 66/100

    Time Spent per Content Type

    Image 53.06%
    Script 24.08%
    HTML 10.39%
    CSS 10.02%
    Other 2.45%

    Time Spent per State

    Connect 41.98%
    Wait 33.54%
    Receive 24.08%
    DNS 0.38%
    Send 0.02%

    #2819

    Would VPS make a big difference?

    #2820
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    Leo
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    @markscatesphotography wrote:

    Would VPS make a big difference?

    I’d say keep it simple as long as you can.

    #2821
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    Imago Borealis
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    http://www.imagoborealis.com
    Tested from Amsterdam, Netherlands on September 17 at 19:57:19

    Page size: 498.1kB
    Load time: 4.83s
    Requests: 54
    Perf. grade: 79/100

    Your website is faster than 32% of all tested websites

    That’s not great but very reasonable considering I am on Bluehost shared hosting.

    On a side-note: I haven’t installed the WP Super-Cache plugin, yet. I’ll repeat this speed test after I’ve come around to do so. Curious about the difference it will/won’t make…

    #2822
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    ernstsg
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    Test Results:

    Page size
    521.2kB

    Load time
    2.16s

    Requests
    48

    Perf. grade
    86/100

    #2823
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    Spectral-design.net
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    Quite good since my slideshow sucks up 2MB to load which is 4 to 5 times more than a default page.

    Load time
    3.33s

    Page size
    2.8MB

    Requests
    72

    Perf. grade
    88/100

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