How can i check the speed from section to section on my site
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hi, i have a real problem on my site with speed www.in2town.co.uk and one of the problems is from going from section to section, so for example from home page to the travel section. i would like to know how i can time the time it takes from section to section and what tools i need.
I urgently need to sort out time delay and make my site much faster, any help would be great
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thanks for that, i use http://gtmetrix.com/ but i am trying to find out about how long it takes from section to section as i have been told it is slow moving around from my site while loading the home page on my site differs during the day. sometimes it loads in three seconds and sometimes it loads in one second. i am sorting out a new larger server but need to check on the navigation of my site
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Hi,
Just from looking at your site I would say if you are not using Varnish, or like program, you could probably help your load time just by leveraging caching to lower per user overhead.
But to be honest, just knowing your site speed, is not a actionable plan to reduce load times.
I personally like Firebug, with chrome addin for Pagespeed - it actually gives you reccomendations of how to reduce your site speed.
I also like this site http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/, as it gives you specifically per page what is loading, and how long it is taking so you can diagnose image loading issues script loading issues ect per page...
Even though I would disagree with Andrea, in the point that Page Load Time is Page Load time... (due to closing scripts and other items can affect page to page load times) I am not aware of anyway to test this without creating a server side network monitor such as wireshark - if possible at all.
Reason why this is not a larger concern, is fixing the items that are suggested in the above tools, will most likely fix any cross loading issues as well.
Hope this helps
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You can try this free online service: http://gtmetrix.com/
If you want you can try also the free firefox plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yslow/ You can find it also for Google Chrome.
In alternative you can use PageSpeed: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/
Hope this help you!!
YESdesign
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Well, page load time is page load time - it's going to to take (for example) 4.2 seconds to load regardless of how you are navigating. I share that because tools don't really look at it in the way you are (section to section) but you get the same information.
Webmaster tools (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/) is a good way to go, or you can use one of many other tools like http://www.gomez.com.
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what i am trying to concentrate on at the moment is the user experience to reduce my bounce rate, i want my users coming back to the magazine again and again so i need to make sure that it is the highest quality for the user including the speed from section to section
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Do you use Google Webmaster? You can check page load times times there. It's not quite the same as section-to-section but gives a better idea of what search engines (I don't really understand the focus on what matters about moving section to section) experience -and users - with your site. And if you install the page speed browser add-on, you can get more data.
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