I just came across a great tool that measures the performance of a web page. I just changed of webhosting company over the weekend so I wanted to see if my website was improving the time it takes to load.
For me it’s very important to have a site that is easy to access and that it doesn’t take forever to load as it discourages visitors
You can find the web performance tool here:
How my Blog is performing?
I compared my blog’s performance vs the performance of two of my favorate blogs: JohnChow.com and Shoemoney.com, so based on the tests I did, here is a table that shows how my blog compares vs the peformance of these other two blogs:
| Website | 56k | 128k | 1.44 Mbps |
| www.johnchow.com | 355 seconds | 117 seconds | 33 seconds |
| www.shoemoney.com | 112 seconds | 43 seconds | 16 seconds |
| www.technobuck.com | 146 seconds | 56 seconds | 19 seconds |
So my blog is performing slightly below Shoemoney’s blog but much better than JohnChow’s blog.
How can I improve my blog’s performance?
That tool, also gives you the details of where your website is taking more time to load a page, in my case, I think I can improve the performance by optimizing the Images. I’m going to see if I can find a tool that let’s me improve the size of the images. Do you know any?
| Object type | Size (bytes) | Download @ 56K (seconds) | Download @ T1 (seconds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| HTML: | 90842 | 18.30 | 0.68 |
| HTML Images: | 159458 | 38.18 | 7.24 |
| CSS Images: | 99694 | 24.07 | 4.73 |
| Total Images: | 259152 | 62.25 | 11.97 |
| Javascript: | 226196 | 48.68 | 4.80 |
| CSS: | 60842 | 13.73 | 1.92 |
| Multimedia: | 17904 | 3.77 | 0.29 |
| Other: | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Héctor Sánchez is a blogger from Ocotlán, Jalisco and he is currently residing in Guadalajara. Héctor is a Public Accountant from Universdidad Panamericana with a Posgrade in Corporate Finance from the same university, and he is currently working as financial analyst for Hewlett Packard. Even though he works in Finance for a living, in his spare time, he is a geek and he likes to build blogs, websites and studies everything related with Internet Marketing and several ways of building businesses online. He is also an active member of Toastmasters, where is the President in turn of his local club, Toastmasters Atlas Chapalita Club.
