Re: UKNM: problems measuring site speed

[Steve Mynott]

On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 11:24:43AM +0100, Charles Linn wrote:

> I am looking for a way to measure the comparative speed of our web pages.  What


Well what you are looking for is a way of measuring the network link

speed...  and you would have to access it from various points all over

the net... 


I doubt you will end up with any useful results and I would be

suspicious of any company who claim you will...


> this with downloads of the same page from other peoples sites.  All I have to

> go on is that our SNMP stats currently show that our connection is saturated,

> which is rather a crude estimate of speed problems.  If anyone has  any


If the connection at your end is saturated then that will be the

bottleneck ...  buy a faster link or cut down on the gifs..


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