Usually mean the number of the seconds spent by the user for full load of the website by means of any modern browser by website speed. It is possible to determine this parameter as manually, and by means of special applications.
It is required to you
- Software:
- - Mozilla Firefox browser;
- - addition of RDS Bar.
Instruction
1. Speed of loading of the website depends on many factors, including availability of sections of the website and speed of connection to the Internet of the client. Irrespective of these parameters you can calculate the necessary value having used special addition to the Firefox browser.
2. Start the web browser, having double clicked on an icon on a desktop. In the opened window click the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + A to open the Additions window, or click the top Tools menu and select the corresponding item.
3. Pass to a search string which is in the upper right corner, having left-clicked in the empty field, and enter RDS Bar. After clicking an icon with the image of the field-glass the list of the additions, the most suitable according to the description will be loaded. The necessary application should be one of the first.
4. Click "Install Now" and wait for full load of addition. Then click "Install" also "Restart the Application". The browser will automatically be closed and again will be started. In a main window of the program you will see the additional panel on top and the small panel from below.
5. In a top panel press the RDS button and select the Setup item. On the first tab find the Loading Speed parameter which is in the second column in the opened directory. Give a mark opposite to this parameter and click "Close".
6. Now follow any link and look at the bottom panel in a browser window - you will see the number of the seconds spent for loading of the current website. Experiment, keying update of F5 page, loading speed will always be different — it is connected with writing data to a browser cache.
7. Speed of loading of the website considerably will differ from real in the presence on its pages of images of the big size or "heavy" scripts. Refresh the page to receive real value of this parameter, images will be displayed from a cache memory.