Re: UKNM: problems measuring site speed

[Paul Sanders]

Chas


>have in mind the following:  Company gives you a page to put on your website

>somewhere, and then they download it at different times of the day, and

>compare

>this with downloads of the same page from other peoples sites.


You really don't want to do this! If the file is small it won't give you a

true idea of the bandwidth available. If the file is big enough to take say

20 minutes, the client getting it will become a bandwidth hog giving your

regular users even more problems.


Most servers should report on the total bytes and average bytes per second

etc. Apache has a status module which you should turn on to get a simple

web page report.


Other than that, if you can't afford more bandwidth you can possibly tune

up your network a bit and slim down your site.


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