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Acceptable page generation time

Any advice on page generation times would be appreciated

         

realitybytes

5:03 pm on Apr 24, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I have searched google, but found very little information on what is acceptable page generation times.

Here are the results I have from my current website it is still under testing and yet to be released to the public.

Homepage
Browser

IE, opera
first request 0.13 repeated loads is 0.03 - 0.06

Firefox. netscape
first request 0.15 repeated loads 0.06 - 0.09

This is a single request and yet to be tested with multiple page requests, do these page generation times seem acceptable? under the outlined conditions.

The homepage is dymnaic and contains real time statistics which are needed. I have created seperate tables that contain only the required numbers as a way to speed up database access, I am able to optimise the sql requests with various joins which I will be implementing very shortly but I suspect that it will not change the generation times a great deal.

All other pages on the site come in at 0.05 - 0.07 max on all browsers, depending how intense the database access is. They all have less initial database access than the homepage, which I realise can be problematic as the homepage will be the most requested page.

helloponty

5:57 am on Apr 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



is there something relating to .8 rule

Matt Probert

6:01 am on Apr 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



The general rule of thumb is less than 10 seconds for something for the reader to start reading to load.

Matt