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With WebWait you can check the load time speed of your site/page. There are a zillion tools out there to do this, including add-ons for the browser, but this a nice feature:
WebWait pulls down the entire website into your browser, so it takes into account Ajax/Javascript processing and image loading, which many other benchmarking tools ignore.
As for non website owners, you can get involved too. Has your favorite site’s sidebar become like an unkempt garage? Did they add some new wizbang Javascript copy/paste that has brought the site loading speed to a crawl? A not-so-subtle hint might be to send them the results of a WebWait test.
Heart site visitors by keeping these times down.
[…] Site design, elements and page loading speed Along the top of the Wirefly home page seven blue tabs are neatly aligned: home, phones, service plans, family plans, accessories, ring tones and pre-paid. According to the Webwait checker, page loading speed over five tests 60 seconds apart averaged 4.5 seconds. Maybe they were having some maintenance problems when I stopped by because I noticed some inconsistent loading between similarly sized pages with some loading extremely fast and others slow. A couple times I experienced timeouts. […]
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