How quickly do your pages load around the world
April 27th, 2009 1 Comment
If you publish content on the internet, for the world to view, you might wonder how your site performs around the world. Pages might load okay for you, but how quickly do those same pages load for people on other continents?
A handy tool for checking on this is the InternetSupervision Web site:
http://internetsupervision.com/scripts/urlcheck/check.aspx
You stick in a URL and click Check and it loads those pages on servers around the world (so they say) and reports back its findings. Each time you click Check the numbers change, presumably because the servers are busy doing other stuff, and the connections they’re using each get quicker and slower from second to second. But it gives you an indication of who’s getting the best of your Web site and which locations probably have to wait longer for pages to finish loading.
Here are the stats for www.itauthor.com:
The BBC Home Page, by comparison, generally takes about 0.1 of a second to load in the UK, and is a bit faster than the current ITauthor Home Page in most place, but is about the same on their Los Angeles server.
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April 27th, 2009 at 9:58 pm (#)
Hi Alistair,
I like this site! Always good to see this info, but I would prefer it if all of the remote locations had the same bandwidth,
You'd need to do it several times (i.e. 10 to 50 times) over a period of time - to take an average.
See you soon, Steohen