load-time

Are there any free tools to help me simulate load on a server?

Hi, I have a problem. I need simulate load in my web server, but all the tools that I see are not free (sorry but my English it's very poor). Can anyone recommend me any free tools that simulate load in a web server? ...

Large application/file load-time

Hello, I'm sure many have noticed that when you have a large application (i.e. something requiring a few MBs of DLLs) it loads much faster the second time than the first time. The same happens if you read a large file in your application. It's read much faster after the first time. What affects this? I suppose this is the hard-drive c...

Internet Explorer takes considerably more time to load than FireFox-- to the point where it actually freezes. How can I prevent this?

Hi, One of our main pages takes an immense amount of time to load in IE8 (have not tried IE7 or 6). It's so bad that IE actually freezes up for a few seconds while trying to load the page. Firefox is perfectly fine... I've tried a bunch of different things but I cannot figure out what it is. It's not very js intensive, although we ar...

Slow ASP.NET app load times - Can I track/trace/time the whole load cycle?

Hey all. The ASP.NET web app project I'm currently working on is getting slower over time to re-load (In IIS or the .NET dev server). Currently it takes: 1:28 minutes to load via an F5 debug 41 seconds to refresh in browser, after a build (not rebuild) The machine's reasonably fast - A Core 2 Quad 2.40ghz, 8 gig o' RAM, running the ...

Figuring out page size with YSlow / Web Developer extension

I'm trying to figure out how much javascript is being loaded on my website. I'm using Reducisaurus to shrink my js files. The problem is, this is causing both YSlow and the Web Developer extension report the size of my files as ~.04K, which I know can't be right (one of the .js files is jquery, which is 50kb). Is there any way to accurat...

Compile-time, load-time, run-time: phases of... what?

Hi. Sorry for the confusing title :P I'm sure I should know this but I always have trouble with terminology. I can't figure out the right word to put in the blank space in the following sentence: Different weaving strategies are usually classified according to the phase of _______ at which they are performed, resulting in the ...

How to decrease the page load time in ASP.NET application ?

How to decrease the page load time in ASP.NET application? What should be the precautions and specially when we are interacting with databases e.g. wise use of viewstate Set in web.config when deploying the app etc ...