Mouse in the House

Posted by mark on February 17th, 2011

Ever wonder how fast your website (or any other website) loads from different locations around the world? Especially if your site relies in part on third party content, the user experience at various cities can be very different indeed!

Using our WatchMouse Performance Monitoring service API, Loads.in is a convenient webmaster tool that allows you to measure just how fast a website loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide – on every continent except Antarctica!

Websites can be particularly susceptible to slow page load speeds when they need to load a high amount of components (images, JavaScript, third party content) to render the complete page.

The free, Loads.in tool checks your site utilizing a real browser, and provides snapshots and waterfall charts for each check.  A selection of browser profiles is available too, and include Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox

Simply enter the full URL of the page you want to check in Loads.in, and the page is retrieved by a browser at a random location. For each subsequent check you can choose a specific location*.

The Loads.in results presented include:

• The page load time of the website
• Snapshots at different times during the loading of the page
• Errors or warnings if they occur
• A complete timing breakdown of all elements of your page in a “waterfall chart”
• The option to download the timing results in the HTTP Archive (HAR) format

*Locations include: Amsterdam, Antwerp, Cologne, Copenhagen, Dublin, Glasgow, Groningen, Lille, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Manchester, Munich, Oslo, Padova, Paris, Stockholm, Zurich, Bucharest, Kharkov (Ukraine), Krakow, Moscow, Vilnius (Lithuania), Melbourne, Sydney, Cape Town, Bangkok, Haifa (Israel), Jakarta, Kuala Lampur, Mumbai, Nagano, Shanghai, Singapore, Guadalajara, Vancouver, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Florida and NYC.

Check it out and let us know what you think. We value your feedback and hope you find Loads.In to be a useful tool and resource.

Happy Monitoring,

Mark Pors
CTO & co-founder

Posted by admin on October 5th, 2009

For years the industry standard for a web page to load was four seconds. Research indicated that pages loading slower than that cause visitors to leave a web site.

Recently a report by Akamai showed that the new standard is just two seconds: “two seconds is the new threshold in terms of an average online shopper’s expectation for a web page to load”.

Although this research focussed mainly one-commerce sites, one can say this is generally true for all websites. This was confirmed today by usability guru Jacob Nielsen in his report Powers of 10: Time Scales in User Experience: “For Web usability, this means that new pages must display within 1 second for users to feel like they’re navigating freely; any slower and they feel held back by the computer and don’t click as readily”.

Four, two, one…

Test your web page load speed here from ten locations worldwide: Check website.