Archive for May 2009

Global webpage test figures

Posted on May 24, 2009, 11:18 am, by john, under Speed Up NZ Internet.

Patrick Meenan of AOL has released aggregated data results of a years data of web page testing from webpagetest.org.
Here a quick summary of the results:

Average Load Time: 10.1 seconds
Average Time to First Byte: 1.1 seconds
Average Time to Start Render: 3.8 seconds
Average Page Size: 510 KB
Average Number of Requests: 50
Average Number of Redirects: 1

Comparing that to [...]

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Homepage hall of shame – 1 year on….

Posted on May 19, 2009, 3:41 pm, by john, under ProjectX Technology, Speed Up NZ Internet.

I decided to have a look at “The NZ homepage hall of shame” , 1 year on. ( Part of the speeding up NZ Internet series, I’ve just finished retesting the web performance of top 75 NZ homepages and added another 25 websites to cover the departure of a few sites) .
This time around, I’ve [...]

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A long time between drinks…

Posted on May 19, 2009, 10:35 am, by john, under All Posts, ProjectX Technology.

Wow, looking at the blog, we haven’t made any posts in months.
Lots of changes happening, new staff, new office, lots of work! We’ve been busy on productionising some code, working with Gooddata and our new project with GWRC.
More details to come…..

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