Freeware to test the file size and download time of homepages

Anyone know of one?

[Trenton]

Hi

I need to test a bunch of homepages on the web for file size and download time for different connections. I used to use a freeware program offered on some website to do this but I can't remember (or find) this website anymore. Any ideas?

[pete_m]

Hi Trenton

I don't know of any freeware programs offhand - I just do this manually.

I use IE to do a file -> Save As -> Web Page (complete) to download the page in question. This will save the HTML file, and any other files (images, css, javascript, etc) are saved in a directory by it. Just total the file sizes (not the "size on disk") to get the page weight.

The HTML file is rewritten slightly (to take account of the new file locations), but this shouldn't make too much of a difference. If want a more accurate size for the HTML page just do a Save As -> HTML only as well.

I always use a figure of 5KBytes per second as the typical download speed for a 56K modem.

Of course, the subjective loading speed will depend on the page construction - using smaller tables (or no tables at all) helps.

[pdoshi]

Hi,

Yes I have used some freeware site and I was looking for it again and came by your post. I dont remember what it was.. but I found another that does help some.

Check it out here...

[netmechanic.com...]

Hope this helps..

[grahamstewart]

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ is also useful to gather some figures (though you are best use you own judgement rather than blindly following their 'analysis').

If you are using Opera then I suggest you download the Web Development menu. It features a bunch of useful little sites like that one.

You can get it from http://www.goddamn.co.uk/tobyink/?page=10

[ergophobe]

Geez, nobody has mentioned WebmasterWorld's own tool page

[searchengineworld.com...]

Tom

[grahamstewart]

The WebmasterWorld size checker isn't actually very useful for working out how big your page is as it doesn't take into account any external stylesheets.

[choster]

On IE, Q42's GetPageSize! bookmarklet is handy: [q42.nl...] . Since it's a bookmarklet, you can use it on internal and external pages, HTML or CSS fragments, or even individual images. Unfortunately, it does not work on Mozilla/Firefox. For convenience (i.e. not having to load up IE) we use "View Speed Report" in the WebDeveloper extension, which is just a shortcut to websiteoptimization.com (thus requiring a publicly available url).

[ergophobe]

My mistake. I thought it counted all external files (images, JS, CSS). I was obviously thinking about something else.

Sorry,

Tom