#speed (9 links)
- High Performance Web Sites :: Evolution of Script Loading stevesouders.com
- Let's make the web faster - Google Code code.google.com
Google's list of performance tools.
- High Performance Web Sites :: Wikia: fast pages retain users stevesouders.com
Wikia measures exit rate - the percentage of users that leave the site from a given page. Here they show that exit rate drops as pages get faster. The exit rate goes from ~15% for a 2 second page to ~10% for a 1 second page. This is another data point to add to the list of stats from Velocity that show that faster pages is not only better for users, it’s better for business.
- Testmyiphone.com - iPhone Speed Test testmyiphone.com
A mobile speed test designed for the Apple iPhone.
- Namesco BroadbandMax ADSL Broadband Bandwidth speedtest | Test your ADSL Broadband connection speed speedtest.bbmax.co.uk
As used by my crappy ISP.
- lori (Life-of-request info) :: Firefox Add-ons addons.mozilla.org
'lori' can tell you how long it takes to load a page. Useful for web developers who are working on profiling, optimizing a web site.
- Pingdom Tools tools.pingdom.com
Loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser. The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars.
- Perceptions of page loading speed » AlastairC alastairc.ac
Applying a number to page loading speed is always suspect, and I’ve generally applied the metric of making sure that people can continue their task within 10 seconds on a reasonable connection (56k+). That doesn’t mean the page has loaded, but that en