Comments on: The Speed Of Irish Websites http://blog.whatclinic.com/2010/05/the-speed-of-irish-websites.html Sharing Tech, Marketing & Health 2.0 information Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:37:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: VJ http://blog.whatclinic.com/2010/05/the-speed-of-irish-websites.html/comment-page-1#comment-2015 VJ Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:40:46 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=1113#comment-2015 This is a really very good post. I have a very important question.... How do we decrease the rendering time of the website ? I saw that your average rendering time is 1-1.5 sec. Can you please let me know if there are tips for that .... VJ This is a really very good post. I have a very important question….

How do we decrease the rendering time of the website ? I saw that your average rendering time is 1-1.5 sec. Can you please let me know if there are tips for that ….

VJ

]]> By: Conor McDermottroe http://blog.whatclinic.com/2010/05/the-speed-of-irish-websites.html/comment-page-1#comment-1946 Conor McDermottroe Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:24:44 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=1113#comment-1946 Thanks for the suggestion Patrick. I hadn't seen that tool before. Off to my Win7 VM I go... :) Thanks for the suggestion Patrick. I hadn’t seen that tool before. Off to my Win7 VM I go… :)

]]> By: Patrick Meenan http://blog.whatclinic.com/2010/05/the-speed-of-irish-websites.html/comment-page-1#comment-1936 Patrick Meenan Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:40:19 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=1113#comment-1936 If you haven't tried it yet, Dynatrace Ajax edition is a really good (and free) javascript profiler for finding those client-side time problems (if they are within your control). 9 times out of 10 on most of the sites I have looked at it is caused by using selectors inefficiently (and repeatedly) for accessing DOM elements. You can get it here: http://ajax.dynatrace.com/pages/ If you haven’t tried it yet, Dynatrace Ajax edition is a really good (and free) javascript profiler for finding those client-side time problems (if they are within your control).

9 times out of 10 on most of the sites I have looked at it is caused by using selectors inefficiently (and repeatedly) for accessing DOM elements.

You can get it here: http://ajax.dynatrace.com/pages/

]]> By: Conor McDermottroe http://blog.whatclinic.com/2010/05/the-speed-of-irish-websites.html/comment-page-1#comment-1827 Conor McDermottroe Mon, 17 May 2010 20:25:24 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=1113#comment-1827 Thanks for the kind mention of boards.ie! We're very conscious of the speed of boards.ie and we track it constantly and try to improve it when we can. The tricky part for us at the moment is that 75%+ of the time to fully load a page is client-side time. We still have lots of work to do! The Firefox plugins YSlow and Google Page Speed are worth using to help do a similar job to webpagetest.org. The "Net" tab of Firebug is also very useful to track down download order/caching issues. Thanks for the kind mention of boards.ie!

We’re very conscious of the speed of boards.ie and we track it constantly and try to improve it when we can. The tricky part for us at the moment is that 75%+ of the time to fully load a page is client-side time. We still have lots of work to do!

The Firefox plugins YSlow and Google Page Speed are worth using to help do a similar job to webpagetest.org. The “Net” tab of Firebug is also very useful to track down download order/caching issues.

]]> By: Caelen King http://blog.whatclinic.com/2010/05/the-speed-of-irish-websites.html/comment-page-1#comment-1823 Caelen King Mon, 17 May 2010 13:19:02 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=1113#comment-1823 It is true about Google taking speed into consideration however I don't believe it is an important factor. They say that it only affects 1% of search results. I wouldn't really stress about speed from an SEO perspective. It is true about Google taking speed into consideration however I don’t believe it is an important factor. They say that it only affects 1% of search results. I wouldn’t really stress about speed from an SEO perspective.

]]> By: Aedan Ryan http://blog.whatclinic.com/2010/05/the-speed-of-irish-websites.html/comment-page-1#comment-1796 Aedan Ryan Thu, 13 May 2010 23:37:13 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=1113#comment-1796 Hi Caelan, Very interesting post. I have previously looked at page load speed in the Google webmaster tools before but the level of detail in webpagetest is much better. As promised I have checked the puddleducks site and the results are as follows. For the first view it took 6.2 secs and for the repeat view it took 4.3 secs. The start render was around 2 secs. We have a very image rich home page and the report states that we can gain a lot of time by ensuring that all images are compressed. So we have a bit of work to do to improve and I'll be onto our web developers to make them. BTW - as well as hopefully decreasing bounce rate I understand that improving load speed can also have a beneficial impact on Google search ranking as stated in this vid: http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp#p/u/4/UbaU-p2UnkA Hi Caelan,
Very interesting post. I have previously looked at page load speed in the Google webmaster tools before but the level of detail in webpagetest is much better. As promised I have checked the puddleducks site and the results are as follows. For the first view it took 6.2 secs and for the repeat view it took 4.3 secs. The start render was around 2 secs. We have a very image rich home page and the report states that we can gain a lot of time by ensuring that all images are compressed. So we have a bit of work to do to improve and I’ll be onto our web developers to make them.
BTW – as well as hopefully decreasing bounce rate I understand that improving load speed can also have a beneficial impact on Google search ranking as stated in this vid: http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp#p/u/4/UbaU-p2UnkA

]]> By: Caelen King http://blog.whatclinic.com/2010/05/the-speed-of-irish-websites.html/comment-page-1#comment-1788 Caelen King Thu, 13 May 2010 14:09:18 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=1113#comment-1788 Hi John and thanks for stopping by. You are right about external advertising services slowing things down. Analytics is now available in async mode which mitigates its overhead and it is easy to get gzipping working IIS (we run on IIS). However, the real problem with the the two papers is that they don't combine their gifs/pngs into a sprite. Hi John and thanks for stopping by. You are right about external advertising services slowing things down. Analytics is now available in async mode which mitigates its overhead and it is easy to get gzipping working IIS (we run on IIS). However, the real problem with the the two papers is that they don’t combine their gifs/pngs into a sprite.

]]> By: John McCormac http://blog.whatclinic.com/2010/05/the-speed-of-irish-websites.html/comment-page-1#comment-1787 John McCormac Thu, 13 May 2010 13:51:21 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/?p=1113#comment-1787 One of the biggest problems affecting some website speed tests is the reliance on external analytics such as GA. The use of external ads servers (Adsense etc) also slows things down a bit. RTE.ie, Irishtimes.com and Independent.ie would be very heavy in this respect. What is fascinating about Irish websites in general is the way that few use mod_deflate or compression. Some of this might be down larger websites using IIS rather than Apache but with Google claiming that website speed and page load times are going play a part in its algorithm, some people are beginning to pay attention. One of the biggest problems affecting some website speed tests is the reliance on external analytics such as GA. The use of external ads servers (Adsense etc) also slows things down a bit. RTE.ie, Irishtimes.com and Independent.ie would be very heavy in this respect. What is fascinating about Irish websites in general is the way that few use mod_deflate or compression. Some of this might be down larger websites using IIS rather than Apache but with Google claiming that website speed and page load times are going play a part in its algorithm, some people are beginning to pay attention.

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