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Measuring Website Response Time
Posted on May 16th, 2010 by Victoria Pal in TechThe response time of a webpage is the time elapsed from the moment the user requests a URL, until the request page is fully displayed. This process can be separated in to 3 logical units - transmission, processing and rendering.
• Transmission consists of the time to transmit the user's request and receive response from the server.
• Processing is the part of the operation where the server has to process the request and generate the response.
• Rendering is client side operation and consists of the time needed by the client machine to display the response to the user.
Importance of Website Response Time
Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Victoria Pal in TechWhy is response time so important? Would it hurt your visitors to wait just a few more seconds for your page to appear? Well, to cut a long story short - Yes, it will hurt your visitors' experience and it will hurt your site.
When you are online, every second counts. The abundance of websites on various topics, located only a few clicks away from each other is why your site can not afford to lose visitors and prospective clients over such a little thing as bad response time.