Google site performance and banner rotation scripts

[Dave_Hybrid]

Hi all,

I have an issue whereby my site is in the 12-13 seconds bracket in WMT site performance.

This is obviously a concern but i cant understand why it is slow, it loads fine for me, WMT bot crawl data suggests the same, and so do many people i have asked to test it from around the world.

The only thing i can find is i run a banner rotation script, that refreshes a banner every 60 seconds, so if you load a page and stay there for 30 mins, that banner will load many times over.

Could this be causing the issue? Technically the pages never finish loading, as the banner keeps going, indefinitely.

Would having the banners load from another domain fix this do you think?

Thanks.

[tedster]

Have you used any of the Page Speed tools? It seems unlikely that a banner refresh after 60 seconds would give you a load speed of 12-13 seconds.

[Dave_Hybrid]

I have tried Web Page Analyzer - 0.98 as advised by Google, it reported 20s load times, which I dont get, neither does anyone i asked to test from many worldwide locations.

Regardless i made a lot of changes and got it dow to 6s, 80% reduction. So i will wait and see what WMT reports, hopefully an 80% drop.

[FourDegreez]

Have you tried Firebug's Net tab to see how all the page elements load?