How Fast Does Your Site Download?

Photo by Dan Kamminga.

Today I want to share with you a great tool called the Web Page Analyzer: Free Website Performance Tool and Web Page Speed Analysis

This awesome tool will tell you how long it will take people to download based on the their connection (e.g. Dial-up, T1, etc.).

I ran a test for my page 30 Days to More Traffic and it returned a multi-page speed report.

Here is a screenshot of the first page:

Looking at my Google Analytics account I see what the connection speed of my visitors is:

From this I can see that Dialup users account for about 3% of my visitors so I am not going to worry about how long it takes them to download my page. They’re probably used to slow downloads anyway.

Most of my visitors are on DSL or Cable and that’s what I will optimize for.

One last thing I should mention is that if you are concerned about how long your site takes for people to download then you ought to use this tool to find out what the download times are for the top 5 sites in your niche.

Try not to have your site be bigger than the top 5 sites in your niche.

Give this tool a whirl:
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/