loadtime

What's the best way to make external images and JS files to not affect page load time?

On a lot of the pages I work with there are a lot of external(non-critical) external images and js files that get called that affect the load time. One of these is a tracking pixel for an ad company that sometimes can take a few seconds to load and you can see this hanging in the browser so it gives a poor user experience. Is there a way...

Measuring page load times [server+client] with third party tools

We want to capture the page load times from server to client and not just execution time at server. This measurement is for system wide, meaning it should get the page load times from various locations. Ours is suite of intranet applications and the locations are predefined [like, Mt. Laurel, Omaha, etc.]. I know that Jiffy and Episodes...

How long should a page generation time take in PHP.

Hello, I was searching the web for this but found no satisfying answer. I am not talking about the time it takes the browser to render and display. Only the part where the HTML is generated in the server itself. <?php $script_start = microtime_float(); #CODE echo (microtime_float()-$script_start) ?> What is the accepted/normal time...

Explanation of Pingdom Results

Hi, I'm trying to optimize my page load times, and I'm using Pingdom to test the site response times. However, I'm not exactly sure what the various components of the "time bar" mean. Example link: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/?url=http://neosmart.net/forums//&amp;id=2230361 According to them, the portion of the bar that is yellow is ...

Html paths difference between full path and going off current?

so ive been reading up on SEO- and heard that paths should include full http://www.etc path, does this apply for image sources and video content as well? our does it make a difference if say a video on my page is loaded via "/images/ex.mov" does this affect load time at all either way? thanks ...

what is heavier on load time: css or php requests?

I'm using a cms (Wordpress) and have a gaggle of external stylesheets I'm loading on each page, though some of these stylesheets are page specific. Overall I'm getting bad scores from Yslow and Page Speed so I'm considering adding some php conditionals to tell the browser to load only the page specific css files as necessary. However, ...

Wordpress xdebug profiling

Hello, I used Xampp 1.7.3 and (mod) xdebug to profile the latest Wordpress 3.0.1 release on a Windows 7 machine. The average loadtime during tests was arround 835 milliseconds calling 697 functions and performing 15 mysql queries. I used the default theme twentyten. Now my question: Can someone validate my results or is my local setu...