Slow page load (Google webmaster tools)

[Bendy]

I was setting up few things in webmaster settings and came across this.

Performance overview
On average, pages in your site take 6.4 seconds to load (updated on Jan 21, 2011). This is slower than 84% of sites. These estimates are of low accuracy (fewer than 100 data points). The chart below shows how your site's average page load time has changed over the last few months. For your reference, it also shows the 20th percentile value across all sites, separating slow and fast load times.

Any tips or advice to speed things up?

http://www.quality-appliances.co.uk

[Mike Hughes]

Too many large images.

Run it through here http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

Diagnosis
Global Statistics
Total HTTP Requests: 121
Total Size: 386193 Bytes

Object Size Totals
Object type Size (bytes)
HTML: 24313
HTML Images: 6431
CSS Images: 203290
Total Images: 209721
Javascript: 62016
CSS: 90143
Multimedia: 0
Other: 0

And this excludes ~1MB of images it can't read such as

img src="acatalog/Bosch WAE24366GB 1200 Spin 6kg Washing Machine.jpg"

probably because of the spaces in the filename.

So, about 1.2 MBytes of your pages 1.4 MBytes size (85%) is images. You really need to compress them and get this down.

You should be aiming for your pages to load in no more than 1-2 seconds. Average broadband speeds in the UK seem to be about 5Mbps ( http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/2010/0...oadband-speed/ ) but the lower end of the range is still about 2mbps ( http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co....d_ratings.aspx ).

So say you allow 2 seconds for the page to load on a 2Mbps connection. That gives you 4 Mb or 500 KBytes as a maximum target page size.

Reduce all your images by 75% and you're home and dry.

Mike