Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of LoadTimes

Timestamp:

07/05/11 13:36:40 (5 years ago)

Author:

chris

Comment:

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LoadTimes

@@ -6 +6 @@
 == 2011-07-05 ==
 
+=== Live Server ===
+
 This is before Varnish has been deployed and also tests have only be done using http as https requests get a 302 redirect back to http.
 
-=== apache bench ===
+==== apache bench ====
 
-Requests were done from another machine in the same rack, 200 requests for the front page, 10 at a time, using http, the first request took about 4 seconds and almost all the rest were less that 0.1 second:
+Requests were done from another machine in the same rack, 200 requests for the front page, 10 at a time, using http, this was done several times and the results below are for an average result, some were faster and some were slower, the first request took about 4 seconds and almost all the rest were less that 0.1 second:
 
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@@ -46 +48 @@
 }}}
 
-=== YSlow ===
+==== YSlow ====
 
  * The page has a total of 29 HTTP requests and a total weight of 421.8K bytes with empty cache
@@ -55 +57 @@
    * CSS expressions (supported in IE beginning with Version 5) are a powerful, and dangerous, way to dynamically set CSS properties. These expressions are evaluated frequently: when the page is rendered and resized, when the page is scrolled, and even when the user moves the mouse over the page. These frequent evaluations degrade the user experience.
  * There are 27 components with misconfigured ETags (all css js and images)
+
+==== pingdom ===
+
+ * http://tools.pingdom.com/?url=http://www.transitionnetwork.org/
+
+The test here will run for 30 secs max and it generally takes longer than that to load the front page, in part because (as far as I can see) pingdom loads all images referenced in the CSS even if the pages doesn't use them. Some stats:
+
+ * Total objects:    76 (677.5 KB)
+ * (X)HTML:    1 (32.8KB)
+ * CSS:    3 (92.7KB)
+ * Scripts:    1 (150.7KB)
+ * Images:    71 (401.2KB)
+