Did You Take Speed Test For Your Site From Google

March 20th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

Have your ever checked your page load time with Google Page Speed? Perhaps you have checked the site loading time using some other speed test services. But you can do it by using Google’s own Page Speed Service. For that you need FireBug addon with Firefox web browser. But frankly speaking, I was never not too excited about it. The page speed activity looked somewhat clumsy to me. First of all, it will display all the request and response times for whole open browsing session. That means if you have more than a site opened in your Firefox then the log will get mixed up with all the service times across the domains in a single console. And the individual request time just comes and goes through the console. So when a processing is finished like a image loading or Javascript execution, those timings will vanish from console. If you want to monitor times, you have to stop Page Speed Activity in the middle of page loading. That is rather inconvenient. By the way, check this manual from Google to learn in detail how to test page load speed of a single site and monitor times in log.

But one thing that stands out is analyzing performance using Page Speed.

So it will have a thorough check-up of your page and give you a overall score out of hundred. And it will list all the problems from DNS request, url redirection, image loading to CSS, Javascript or caching problems. You may find out a few things that you really need to tweak.