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About SiteTimerWeb Monitor allows you to monitor how long it takes for a user to download one or more of your web site pages. It visits the page that your request and downloads all content that's directly linked from that page;
As the pages are downloaded, SiteTimer stores statistics on how long time each item takes to download, and how much data they contained. This information is then presented in a grid. Web Monitor correctly handles http compressed material (see OctaGate Switch), and it also honors keep-alive requests to give an accurate indication of the times a real browser would spend downloading the content. Optimizing your siteYour page shouldn't take too long to load, slow load speeds will lead to users leaving your pages even though they're interested in the material. Users are becoming less and less accepting when it comes to slow sites as internet maturity increases. The size of the page is the main deciding factor for download times, coupled with bandwidth. Though you can influence the bandwidth of your webservers, you cannot influence the bandwidth of your users. So make sure that your pages are no larger than they need to be. To reduce the size of your pages, you can; Decrease the size of your images:
If the first part of your page loads fast, and the parts that aren't visible yet take longer, than that's ok, because the users don't care about information that they're not ready to look at yet. Reasons for slow load speedsPages can be slow to load for a number of reasons;
Technical Details About SiteTimerIf you want more technical details about OctaGate SiteTimer, please see this version of the page. |