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How to measure page load time with google analytics

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Re: How to measure page load time with google analytics

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Clever idea!

Although I prefer Chrome Dev Tools for this task - measuring page load time of people with different connection speeds, CPUs (for rendering), browsers seems a little weird.

The graph about bounce rate caught my attention. Although the author draws a straight line, it looks more like a parabola with minimum around 3.5 seconds. Which is kind of unexpected (and I can't even think of any reasonable explanation for this).

Re: How to measure page load time with google analytics

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If after timing your page you want to get some external confirmation I use this site frequently: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ It gives some pretty useful results when you're tuning your page because it breaks it down in to components.

Also, a nice free service provided by AOL:

http://www.webpagetest.org/

Pretty good result charts, with complete component breakdown, timings and recommendations.

(Edit: missed that jrosoff had already mentioned it, but I'll leave my note anyway)

Re: How to measure page load time with google analytics

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If after timing your page you want to get some external confirmation I use this site frequently: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ It gives some pretty useful results when you're tuning your page because it breaks it down in to components.

Cool! There are a bunch of external monitoring services that are worth checking out in addition to this.. - http://www.yottaa.com (shameless plug for my own company) - http://www.webpagetest.org - http://www.zoompf.com - http://www.showslow.com

Hello, just a questions about yottaa.com: on my firebug Yslow(V2) I get an Overall performance score 91 (and in Page Speed I get 95). How come on yottaa I get a YSlow score of 78?

Re: How to measure page load time with google analytics

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool! There are a bunch of external monitoring services that are worth checking out in addition to this.. - http://www.yottaa.com (shameless plug for my own company) - http://www.webpagetest.org - http://www.zoompf.com - http://www.showslow.com

Hello, just a questions about yottaa.com: on my firebug Yslow(V2) I get an Overall performance score 91 (and in Page Speed I get 95). How come on yottaa I get a YSlow score of 78?

What site are you measuring? I'll go check it out. Feel free to follow up via jrosoff AT yottaa DOT com

Re: How to measure page load time with google analytics

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello, just a questions about yottaa.com: on my firebug Yslow(V2) I get an Overall performance score 91 (and in Page Speed I get 95). How come on yottaa I get a YSlow score of 78?

What site are you measuring? I'll go check it out. Feel free to follow up via jrosoff AT yottaa DOT com

Be sure to post the findings/reason here.

Re: How to measure page load time with google analytics

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool! There are a bunch of external monitoring services that are worth checking out in addition to this.. - http://www.yottaa.com (shameless plug for my own company) - http://www.webpagetest.org - http://www.zoompf.com - http://www.showslow.com

Hello, just a questions about yottaa.com: on my firebug Yslow(V2) I get an Overall performance score 91 (and in Page Speed I get 95). How come on yottaa I get a YSlow score of 78?

Looks like this was a result of old data.. The score of 78 was measured on October 2nd. I hit the "Click here to re-check now" button and the score is now listed as 88. We're looking at the sub-scores now to see exactly what's different.
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