Page loading times..

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[Snake da Sniper]

Hi,

New to this forum, hope you are all well.

I've trawled through allot of the posts but I can't seem to find an answer for what I'm looking for.

Does anyone know of a program / software that checks the loading times of web pages? I've tried Dr.Watson but I'm getting a page to large to proccess error. Being on BB i noticed it was not as quick as it should be ie. <2sec but I need idealy to find out how slow it will be on a 56k. & no it's not a gif intence page, it's all text.

[ikbenhet1]

search for 56k simulator (on google)and you will find a exelent tool for this purpuse.

btw. I see it's your first post, welcome!

ps. it doesn't count total time, but simulates download speed, so you still have to clock it yourself.

[edited by: ikbenhet1 at 12:04 pm (utc) on July 9, 2003]

[Web Footed Newbie]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Snake da Sniper!

Microsoft FrontPage uses an estimated clock speed for how fast a page will load at 28k modem speed, and it is usually accurate. But then, you will have to clean up a bit of HTML code after producing a page (FP has a few HTML items that will not validate as HTML4.01).

Good luck, WFN :)

[lefou]

CuteHTML 2.3 can estimate page load; Dreamweaver MX, too. Check the options in these programs, if using any of them (recommend mostly MX;)

[buckworks]

I like the HTML checker at NetMechanic dot com.

[AWildman]

Homesite has a very nice document weight checker that estimates download times for different speed connections. What I like about the doc weight tool is that it shows you where your problems may be in terms of what about the page is the heaviest, ie. which images etc.

[Snake da Sniper]

Yeah I've got DWMX but I'm using DW4.1 which i prefer. I had a look & it's says you can use that to work it out for 56k, but I just can't figure it out?

[BlobFisk]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Snake da Sniper!

This is something that can be done quite easily manually (for non-dynamic pages):

HTML Kb Size + Total Kb Size of Images + External JS Kb Size + External CSS Kb Size

The total of these will give the total amount of Kilobytes that needs to be downloaded. 56kps is 56 kiloBits per second, or roughly 7 Kilobytes per second.

Now, to roughly estimate the time (roughly, as peoples connection speeds vary from 33kps to 54kps on an analog line with a 56k modem) is to divide your total download size by 6. Therefore, if your total is 60Kb, then it'll take roughly 10 seconds to download.

There is no hard and fast method of estimating exactly how long your page will take to download on a 56k modem, as people get varying connection speeds. The above method should give you a rough idea.

[killroy]

use WebStress, it simulates loads on your server and can fetch multiple URLs and a whole bunch of other stuff, and then afterwards gives you full stats on average times, longest waiting times and total times and such.

Hmm I ought to register. It has a shareware version that lets you simulate 5 users for 5 runs. Try it...

Been using it for lots of testing stuff for years.

SN

[Snake da Sniper]

Cheers Blob that makes sense.

Had a look at webstress but that wasn't realy what I was after as I don't run my own server.