Re: optimilize web page loading

---- Alain Roger <raf.news@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > i would like to know if there is a way to know how long does a web page need > to be loaded into browser ? > this is interesting fact for me, as i will optimilize my PHP code in order > to reduce this time to minimum. > > i was thinking to use some timestamp but as it will be in PHP, it mean that > it should take time from server and therefore it is not fully representative > from client browser time needed to load page :-( > purpose : > mywebpage.php -> 23 s before optimalization > mywebpage.php -> 12 s after optimalization > > do you have any idea ? General rule of thumb used to be 2 seconds... If your page hasn't outputted some form of usable information in 2 seconds or less, people don't stick around. What's worse is that some browsers require the whole page contents before they will draw the page, so you get a white page while the page is loading into the browser and the client gets nothing. Firebug/Yslow are both good extensions to load for Firefox to see where the bottlenecks are. Wolf