Testing Website Performance Across Locations, Browsers and Networks
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This document discusses measuring website performance across different browsers, locations, and networks. It identifies several factors that can slow down websites, such as having many page requests, large resources like images and CSS/JavaScript files, poorly optimized server configurations, and third-party plugins. The document recommends testing website performance in different environments to identify issues. It also notes that users want rich experiences but additional features can degrade performance. Overall speed and a good user experience should be design priorities.
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Testing Website Performance Across Locations, Browsers and Networks
- 1. Testing Drupal Site Performance Across Browsers, Geographies and Networks Bob Buffone Jess Iandiorio CTO and Co-founder Sr. Director, Cloud Product Yottaa, Inc. Marketing Acquia
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- 5. Measuring your website in different ways!!! June 13th, 2012 Yottaa Inc. http://www.yottaa.com
- 6. Agenda • The Web… Its complicated • Things that make a website slow • Human factors of web performance • How can you make your website faster? • Tweet – @rockstarapps – @yottaa 6
- 7. WHY MEASURE IT? © 2011 Yottaa Inc. All Rights Reserved. 7
- 8. In between your visitors and you 8
- 9. websitetest.com 9
- 11. Variability in Locations 11
- 12. Variability in Connectivity Connectivity makes a big difference. Think about your experience on your phone compared to your office. 12
- 13. Variability in Browser Browser differences can create surprising differences • Connection Management • JavaScript Engines • Rendering Speed 13
- 14. THINGS THAT MAKE YOUR WEBSITE SLOW © 2011 Yottaa Inc. All Rights Reserved. 14
- 15. Lots of Requests • Product owners want rich websites – Rich in User Experience – Rich in Visual Presentation • Achieving richness requires more resources to be downloaded to the client – CSS – HTML – JavaScript – Images 15
- 16. Content Breakdown http://www.websitetest.com/ui/samples/4fd7e310cacea0731000019c#visualizations 16
- 17. Large Resources • Many of the resources that you need to load can be made fatter than required – HTML, CSS, JavaScript – Add lots of comments and white space – Images • Use images that are larger than displayed on the webpage • Always use the highest quality settings • Turn off gzip compression on your server 17
- 18. Large assets take longer to download 18
- 19. Large assets take longer to download 776KB 19
- 20. Bad Servers • There are many things that can make your servers slow – Poorly written code – Bad database design – Sharing a server with others – Old Servers – Not enough memory – Slow hard drives 20
- 21. Large assets take longer to download 21
- 22. 3rd Party Plugins • Bloggers love to make their websites slow using plugins. – Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, LinkedIn – Photo plugins… • Not utilizing asynchronous loading of 3rd party resources. 22
- 23. Marketing Loves Social Social adds LOTS of resources -> 86 JavaScript, images and CSS. 23
- 24. Other things you can do • Redirect from www to non-www using client-side – Use a 301 redirection instead of 302 • 404s – usually take longer • Run JavaScript code while your page is loading. • Only look at how fast your site is from your desktop • Think your website is fast enough • Do not test your websites performance • Think your developers would never do any of these things 24
- 25. HUMAN FACTORS © 2011 Yottaa Inc. All Rights Reserved. 25
- 26. Human Factors • Desire for Social • Desire to increase functionality • Lack of understanding about the impact of performance on the business • Lack of understanding about what makes a website slow or fast • Lack of the ability to determine if there is a problem • Lack of time to test and fix issues 26
- 27. Thank you for your time Bob (Buffone) CTO/Co-founder www.yottaa.com 27
- 28. Questions • For more information visit: http://www.acquia.com • Contact us: sales@acquia.com or 888.9.ACQUIA • Follow us: @acquia • Comments welcome: • Jess.iandiorio@Acquia.com Today’s webinar recording will be posted to: http://acquia.com/resources/recorded_webinars
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