If your company has a website, you better make sure that’s its fast. When customers are searching for your business, speed matters, and if your website does not load in under 4 seconds, your customer may be gone. Additionally, Google gives faster-loading websites better rankings over websites that take longer to load.
Thanks to Pingdom, they’ve provided an excellent tool so you can check your website’s speed. You should not check your website’s speed with your own stopwatch due to inaccuracies. Since you have already visited your website, your webpages files, images, and stylesheets are already stored on your hard drive so the webpage loads faster for you.
With Pingdom’s site speed tool, you’ll be able to see how long it took for your website to load. It will also display how long it took for each element of your website to load such as various images or scripts, which is a tremendous feature so you can target elements of your site that are taking longer to load than other elements.
I was able to find that Zadling.com loads in 3.5 seconds, so I’ve met my goal of having my website load in under 4 seconds. CNN.com, for example, takes 5.4 seconds to load, which is rather impressive considering the detailed nature of their website.
If you’re looking to increase the speed of your website, Zadling can help. We can provide you with a free website consultation. We will analyze your website and make recommendations on how to improve your website’s speed, what can be done to improve your sites layout, navigation, and design, as well as how you are able to increase your website’s visibility in search engines. We can also host your website on our dedicated servers giving your website a tremendous speed advantage over your competitors.
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Courtney Mcneary
Mar 31, 10 at 6:32 pmI love your take on this, could not agree more.
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