An Overview of the Load Impact Page Analyzer

Using a web page analyzer is an excellent way to gain a better understanding about your web pages performance. Search engines and everyday visitors are placing a higher and higher emphasis on how quickly your website will load. Load Impact, most well known for their Load Testing Tool, also has a page analyzer that will give you a better idea of how efficient your web page is loading for the average viewer. Here is a look at what you will learn when you use the Load Impact Page Analyzer.

• Time in Queue – This is the amount of time that resources are idle, waiting to be downloaded by the browser.
• Connect Time – This is the amount of time that it takes to connect to the server.
• DNS Lookup Time – This is the amount of time that it takes to find the host name and the IP address.
• Redirect Time – This is the total amount of time that is lost during a redirect.
• Download Time – This is the total amount of time that a browser spends downloading the resources.
• Time to First Byte – This is the amount of time that it takes for the browser to receive the very first byte from the hosting server.

The page analyzer tool will display all of your performance metrics in a load-bar diagram which will allow you to visualize the amount of time that each action is taking. It will also display resource attributes including the URL, HTTP status code, size, and compression ratio.

The Load Impact Page Analyzer will be able to act as a variety of different browsers so that you will be able to see what differences exist between browsers. It is especially helpful if your visitors primarily use only a few different types of browsers. The browsers that can be emulated include: Safari (3 and 4), Internet Explorer (6, 7, and 8), Chrome (1, 2, 3, and 4), Firefox (2, 3, and 3.5), and Opera 9.64.

The page analyzer can also act as the following indexing bots: GoogleBot 2.1, MSNBot 1.1, and Yahoo! Slurp. This is especially important because it will tell you exactly what the search engines spiders will see and how they will analyze your site.

Page analyzers are becoming increasingly important as visitors and search engines place a higher emphasis on load times. This tool will be able to help you identify potential problem areas, which makes it easier to address them. While there are a number of page analyzers online, the Load Impact Page Analyzer seems to have all of the features that the average webmaster will need.

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