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Load Time is amount of time (usually in seconds) that takes a browser to fully download and render a web page.

Definition

Wikipedia defines it as follows:

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Tools

The following websites provide free and convenient tools for quick measuring web page load time along with full detailed graphs:

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How is jQuery so fast?

I have a rather large application which, on the admin frontend, takes a few seconds to load a page because of all the pageviews that it has to load into objects before displaying anything. Its a bit complex to explain how the system works, but a few…
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Heroku - Spin Up

I have a site that I deployed to Heroku. It's a low traffic site so if nobody goes to it for a couple hours and then go to it, it will take about 5-10 seconds to load. Any other requests to other pages on that site loads up fine quickly. If I…
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How to test speed a query without result in MySQL

I have queries that return thousands of results, is it posible to show only query time without actual results in MySQL console or from command line?
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Azure websites load takes very long time

Hello I have recently deployed one of my application on azure portal and it is running fine as well but the issue it takes 15 SECONDS TO LOAD for the first time when site load. After site load successfully once than it runs fine but as I open after…
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Show load time on page

I want to show the users how long the page takes to fully load in the footer of my website. How do I go about doing this? I assume there is a function that can be used for this? Not sure what language this type of feature is developed in? Any help…
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Performance when combining specific page styles AND global style in the same page

My main goal is to allow for the loading of several pages to be as fast as possible. For this I want to take advantage of both, the cache and one "special technique" that, as a fallback, relies on the standard cache. Structure On the backend I have…
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Why is Firefox MUCH faster than Chrome when loading 'big' documents?

I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue with bad acceptance of custom html build-reports that require a very long time to load on googlechrome, whereas load time is much better on firefox. talking about ~5 sec. vs ~110 sec. (measured with firefox &…
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How to decrease the page load time in ASP.NET application?

How to decrease the page load time in ASP.NET application? What should be the precautions and specially when we are interacting with databases e.g. wise use of viewstate Set in web.config when deploying the app etc
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Slow ASP.NET app load times - Can I track/trace/time the whole load cycle?

The ASP.NET web app project I'm currently working on is getting slower over time to re-load (In IIS or the .NET dev server). Currently it takes: 1:28 minutes to load via an F5 debug 41 seconds to refresh in browser, after a build (not rebuild) The…
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display none Does it reduce load time, or are the items still loaded but not displayed

I am building a responsive website using media queries. I need to switch to a different navigation method for very small screens. For desktop/tablet screens, I am using a sprite based UL/LI list method. For small smart phone screens, I will have…
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What would cause the difference in filter load speed between Chrome and Firefox?

I have a news aggregator page that has multiple filters. The company filter has a large number of companies. When the + button is clicked in Chrome to expand the list and view the list of companies, it takes 6-8 seconds for the entire list to become…
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Does display:none keep elements from loading?

I have a large video file that I want to put on my main page. I don't want it to bog down the loading time, so I was thinking I could just set it to display:none and then change the display after the page loads. Would this work?
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Do unused CSS styles affect load times

I am wondering if unused CSS styles affect load times because I normally break my sections of my code using this format /*=================== Nav-Styles ===================*/ However, I also use coda to write my code. It has a code navigator,…
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How big is too big when coming to background images?

I am having a little issue here. I am a web development major and I am currently building this site for a project I am required to do. I wanted to make it look pretty with a background image. I created the image in Photoshop and saved it to web as a…
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How important it is to measure the page render/load time in web application

When we test for the Performance of an Web Application what generally people concentrate on ?. Is it the http response time ?. Or is it the time page takes to load/render completely on client browser once after it receives the response from the…
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