Load Time

[2_much]

I recently had a site dropped from Yahoo. I emailed them regarding this matter and received a reply back from one of their editors.

The editor stated that our site was dropped because our page was slow to load. He/she said that their bot automatically "downed" the site because it didn't respond within a certain amount of time.

He then went on to suggest we speed up the load time for the site so that it won't get automatically dropped again by their "bot".

Suggestion: If you have sites in Yahoo, make sure the file size is reasonable and that there are no problems with load time.

[JamesR]

Can you post the page size of the site that got dropped?

[mivox]

Is this the "morgue1.yahoo.com" spider that determines load/response time?

[minnapple]

Are they measuring file size or data delivery?

Hope they are not measuring base upon delivery time.

If they are we are at the mercy of everything between our servers and theirs.

Lately, many people in our area I having ISP problems even though they are using different ISP's.

Even though we are using different services, is it likely there is some common variable that would affect service?

Local nodes etc . .

Wondering

[Brett_Tabke]

This is actually a very important point for all search engines. They do measure response times to sites and the algo reflects that from time to time. That is part of what Ink does with it's "everyday" spidering of sites and pages that are never found in their db.

[JamesR]

Brett you've posted targeted times, file sizes before. Any more tips on where the threshold is currently at?

[Brett_Tabke]

No real idea anymore James. What I do, is click off the top ten sites in a category in non-peak hours and see how fast they respond. Then compare that to my sites.

[2_much]

Hi, sorry, I was away for the weekend.

Unfortunately, I don't have any details. Our log program doesn't identify anything from yahoo, it simply appears as yahoo.com so I can't tell if it's an editor or a spider.

The index page of that site was about 70K. We reduced it to 50K and the site got added back to the database.

My impression, minapple, is that they are measuring based upon delivery time.

[skirril]

Ok, here's something that might strike some of you:

The entrance page to my site is about 6.5k in size, most of our pages do not contain graphics, and if they do, the total size of the page (text+graphics) is usually less than 100k.

Most pages are therefore loaded in less than 5s.

All a matter of optimisation.. :)

[Brett_Tabke]

It's also response time, and that response needs to be measure from several different locals. I find a server in the San Fran area if possible.

[Bolotomus]

I've never seen a Yahoo bot ask for a graphic file, so it really doesn't know the total page size.

I think if they say it was too slow, they mean to say that they didn't get the HTML in time.

You guys are right, that's totally bogus. There are a million reasons why server X might not be able to contact you right now.

Bolot