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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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Compile-time, load-time, run-time: phases of... what?

Sorry for the confusing title :P I'm sure I should know this but I always have trouble with terminology. I can't figure out the right word to put in the blank space in the following sentence: Different weaving strategies are usually classified…
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Html paths difference between full path and going off current?

I've been reading up on SEO and heard that paths should include full URLs: http://www.etc Does this apply for image sources and video content as well? Or does it make a difference if say a video on my page is loaded via "/images/ex.mov" Does this…
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Explanation of Pingdom Results

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:…
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Frontend minimize load time

I am using new-relic and for my website, the homepage is taking 8 seconds on average to be fully loaded. The network requests are fast, but the dom and page rendering are whats slowing it down. I have google +, facebook, twitter share buttons and…
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Extremly long load time for Ember.js application

I am using Ember.js to build a website for my company. The problem I am having is that the initial load time of the page is around 10 seconds. I cant give you the profiling data from chrome because I can't get them out of work. However what I…
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optimize expensive php query/subquery

I have a table with 3 columns: submission_id, column_id, data. Each submission_id has 25 columns and data values. I have a page that displays all submissions where column_id = 16 and data = ('' or 0). To get this, I use a subquery to get all the…
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My wordpress site initial loading is too slow.How to improve?

I've hosted a wordpress site kerala.letmeshare.org. But it takes too much time for loading. It doesn't seem to be a network issue. Static pages on the same domain get loaded as usual (faster). What might be the reason? I analyzed using the…
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Are unused pictures still loaded when page loads?

I have a website that has a function call, which after business hours, in my time zone switches to 'night mode'. The php file has the divs for the night mode as well as the day mode in one file for day mode the divs have "day-" prefix and night…
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High Latency 4-6s on WordPress sites

I have a few sites which are exhibiting a slow load time. All are WordPress 3.5. All are hosted through BlueHost. All are developed by me (built as child-themes of existing WP themes). Using Safari Developer tools, I see that they average 4–6…
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Using Minified Page Specific JS

I've been working on a rather large scale project which makes use of a number of different pages with some very specific Javascript for each of them. To lessen load times, I plan to minify it all in to one file before deploying. The problem is this:…
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What should the max file size be for a site background image?

The site I'm developing at the moment has a background image that is 250k after being optimized. It's being served from a CDN but obviously this is way too big, but before I go to the designer and ask her to remake the image, what is a file size I…
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Is there any class in Android that can be used to measure the web page load time?

I am trying to compare the web page loading time between 3G network and WiFi, so I am looking for classes that can be used in android for this purpose. But so far I have not found any very useful class. Has anybody done this before and what did you…
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How can I/should I better combine numerous style declarations?

Is it better/faster to (1) stack selectors in style declarations, (2) stack classes in HTML tags, or (3) stack duplicate declarations in unique selectors? To clarify my question, I will show you examples of each. Each piece of code should…
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Increasing page load time

I have a javascript source code file which is about 32kb, and has javascript code arranged in modules. I was wondering if it would increase page load time if i put each module into a separate file as managing the current code of over 2000 lines is…
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Load timer on SWFObject for SWF load time

Having a number of people complaining of slow load times on an SWF, but it appears fine this end. I'd like to add a load timer in the SWFObject javascript to time how long it takes to load an SWF and then send it back to us (I'll do that via…
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