Global webpage test figures
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 secondsAverage Page Size: 510 KB
Average Number of Requests: 50
Average Number of Redirects: 1
Comparing that to the web performance audit of the top 100 NZ websites.
Average homepage size: 359.6K
Average download time: 3.85
Average total requests: 57.2
Looks like NZ homepages are starting to get the message.
June 25th, 2009 at 5:12 am
Those who monitor the Google blog will have seen their recent post “Let’s make the web faster”.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/lets-make-web-faster.html
Don’t bother watching the video – but the resources they point to are worth being aware of:
http://code.google.com/speed/articles/
http://code.google.com/speed/downloads.html