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Load Time is amount of time (usually in seconds) that takes a browser to fully download and render a web page.

Definition

Wikipedia defines it as follows:

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Tools

The following websites provide free and convenient tools for quick measuring web page load time along with full detailed graphs:

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What is happening between receiving HTML and DOM ready?

I've spend evenings on tuning my backend code to be served faster, yet there's a gap in page loading time that am not familiar with. Attached an image - please tell me what is happening in highlighted time (between recieving HTML and DOM…
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ASP.NET application performance issue on Windows Azure

We have an application deployed on Windows Azure as a Web Role and we are using Pingdom for testing page load times: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ The url for the application on Windows Azure is: http://www.doctorspring.com . The load time of the…
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why could my website be 'loading' twice?

or at least that's what pingdom says, and i think it's a pretty reliable service, Notes: APACHE: php & mysql No iframes htaccess: #Gzip AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css…
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Blackberry BrowserField2 extreemly slow loading times

I am currently trying to load some pages with a BrowserField2 but the loading time takes way to long. Loading the same page in the OS Browser works fine (<5 sec) but loading it within my app takes >30 seconds. What could be the reason? Here is my…
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triggering client-side filtering at load time in a jqGrid

I'm trying to get a JqGrid to do some client-side filtering (and sorting) just after it has finished loading in the data. I can set the search-field correctly, but calling TriggerToolbar() doesn't seem to have any effect. $("#list").GridUnload(); …
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Which are the right metrics to accurately measure page load time?

I'm using the JavaScript Performance API and I'm trying to figure out the right combination of metrics to log my page load time on the console, whenever any individual page is requested and loads. TLDR: I want to use JavaScript's Performance API to…
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ASP.NET Productivity Power tools "fix mixed tabs"; which one gives the cleanest HTML?

I have the productivity power tools installed in my Visual Studion 2010 installation. My college frontend developer is working on a mac. When I implement his html in VS, the "fix mixed tabs" component "asks" me "You have mixed tabs and spaces" with…
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ActiveRecord Custom Query vs find_by_sql loading

I have a Custom Query that look like this self.account.websites.find(:all,:joins => [:group_websites => {:group => :users}],:conditions=>["users.id =?",self]) where self is a User Object I manage to generate the equivalent SQL for same Here how…
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When are javascripts loaders slower than the traditional approach?

I have an app that has a bunch of resources. Having read about javascript loaders I decided to see what kind of boost I'd get from loading resources asynchronously. To my surprise I found that using a loader was visibly slower (no stopwatch…
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Load time: is it quicker to parse HTML with PHP's DOMDocument or with Regular Expressions?

I'm pulling images from my Flickr account to my website, and I had used about nine lines of code to create a preg_match_all function that would pull the images. I've read several times that it is better to parse HTML through DOM. Personally, I've…
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Fancybox causing slow load times in IE?

I'm using Fancybox v.1.3.4 to display videos in an iframe on this page. The Fancybox and the videos display fine, but the problem is that, since adding the code, I'm getting a huge pause when loading up the site in IE7/8, similar to this issue—the…
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Ajax.net - Improve Page Load Time

here's my problem. I'm developing a website that will allow users to book hotels all around the world, just like booking.com, expedia.com, etc. When the user searches for hotels in a certain city, I connect through Web Services with different…
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Assess load time of Include file. If slow, then stop loading this file and load another Include file

I have 2 files (data1.php & data2.php) which fetch data through CURL. I have included these files in another page like index.php. One of these files (data1.php) sometimes takes too much time and hangs the page. I would like to know if there is a way…
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Large application/file load-time

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…
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Load-time dynamic link library dispatching

I'd like my Windows application to be able to reference an extensive set of classes and functions wrapped inside a DLL, but I need to be able to guide the application into choosing the correct version of this DLL before it's loaded. I'm familiar…
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