Questions tagged [load-time]

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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Loading time more in Iphone safari

I am trying to load my web page in mobile(IPhone), In chrome browser it taking only 3 seconds but in safari it taking almost 2 minutes to load a entire page, Is there any specific reason for this behavior? If is it so how can I overcome this?
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Is it more efficient to print a large image less times, or a small image more times?

Say I want to print an image multiple times, and in groups. So the the desired result would be something like this: :) :) :) text :) :) :) more text :) :) :) Is it more efficient to create one large image like :) :) :) out of the smaller image,…
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How to test CSS file load time?

I want to make CSS file load into HTML file time tester, so I search for idea how to test CSS file load time: 1) When I use import() function; 2) When I use link tag Should I use PHP timers or something?
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Chrome network timeline unexplained latency

I have a website that loads roughly after 5s. When I take a look to the network diagram on Chrome: As you can see, there's this relatively huge time span before favicon.ico is loaded (where nothing seems to happen, not even Content Download) that…
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how to efficiently place ads on a website to decrease page load time

Case: Our site has many ads block from different publishers and we have placed them on different regions of our sites homepage. They are mainly banner ads. Problem: Site loads very slow and takes about 15 - 20 sec on an average. Is there are any…
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Server scaled images within WP Canvas - Gallery.

If this is the wrong outlet for my question, my sincere apologies. I'm trying to improve my load times, I'm using a masonry plugin (WP Canvas - Gallery) for my galleries. They currently use the full high res image even when in the grid. It makes my…
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Would adding a dynamic tooltip affect load time?

I have a table "State", consisting of a few thousand records, and I'm printing each of their names on one page. Would adding a dynamic tooltip to each add noticeably to the load time of the page? In other words, would there be a significant…
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Work around for creating object from database just to access a single property of the object

I'm trying to optimize a small patch of code that's connecting to our servers over and over again. To start off, here's the patch of code Dim sale as Sale() With sale If .CustomerID > 0 Then .CustomerName =…
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Cut connection time by optimizing code for speed

I'm trying to optimize a small patch of code that's connecting to our servers over and over again. To start off, here's the patch of code Dim sale as Sale() With sale If .CustomerID > 0 Then .CustomerName =…
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Too much load time when returning large string from webmethod Asp.Net

I have a WebMethod in Asp.Net and everything looked to be working fine . Suddenly i had to change some parameters and the queries brought in too much data i check the string count = 82452. The issue is it is taking too much time to show the data . I…
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Will linking to a lot of favicon image sizes make the page slower?

From this gist: https://gist.github.com/awesome/9947977, there are many options for adding the favicon graphic. Will many references to the tag slow down the page? Or is this just a bad idea?
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Page Download Speed API Service

I'm looking for a API online service that provides the page download speed of specific pages on different websites. The result should give me the load time in milliseconds (i.e. 3400 ms). I've firstly seen Google's PageSpeed service, but it only…
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Magento large attribute list - CSV Importing and Potential response time issues

I am relatively new to Magento and have a question around the CSV importing process and any effects that large attributes may have on the database / response times. Each product on my shop may have up to 200 different colour variations as well as 6…
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phpmyadmin not loading on web server

phpMyAdmin does not want to load on the server. All other web apps (Piwik, RoundCube, etc) are loading fine on the same web server. All webapps are talking to the same MySQL server. DB Server has load times of 0.99, 0.92, 0.56 (dual core cpu). Web…
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