Broadband speed test

As more and more Internet users get a broadband connection web page designers will reach the point where they don't need to worry so much about optimized web page sizes.

Until that day arrives you might want to use the download broadband speed test tool to check the bandwidth of your connection to this web site.

The broadband speed test results

• Ultra broadband speed 769kb/s to 1024kb/s

• Super broadband speed 513kb/s to 768kb/s

• High broadband speed 257kb/s to 512kb/s

• Basic broadband speed 129kb/s to 256kb/s

• High speed ISDN 65kb/s to 128kb/s

• Basic ISDN 32kb/s to 64kb/s

• Analoge Dial-up 1kb/s to 56kb/s

Tip: Try the broadband speed test more than once.
The first test can be slower due to the initial network connection.

Your broadband speed test results

Are you using a connection speed you can live with ?

Is it time to get one of the broadband connections with DSL, ADSL, or Cable Modem or would it be cheaper to increase the speed of your existing connection ?

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Optimization is of course not just for the search engines, but for your website visitors. The impression you as a visitor get about a website can be greatly influenced by how quickly the pages on the site download.

User studies have shown the time the average visitor will wait for a web page to download into the visible area of their web browser is around 8 seconds. Someone using a 56Kb/s dial-up analogue modem to connect their computer to the Internet can in theory download 7K Bytes per second.

In case all this talk about Kb/s and KB/s or K bits per second and K Bytes per second is confusing, just remember a Byte is 8 bits.

In reality the speed achieved is less than 56kb/s due to the packet overhead in the TCP/IP stream. Packet overhead is just tech speak for information that needs to be sent with your data to establish and maintain the connection. This means there is less room for your data.

Ignoring the computer speak, the dial-up user achieves at best about 45Kb per sec. This means the browser visible part of a web page must be less than 45KB to download in 8 seconds.

A web page can continue to download into the non-visible area, but it must have completed loading before the visitor decides to scroll down the page.

What is the visible area of the users browser ?

Most website designers tend to stick to a page width around 740 to 770 pixels maximum to allow for browsers other than Internet Explorer.

So, let's say a web page is designed to be 750 pixels wide and 2000 pixels long. This means 500 pixels of the page length, or one quarter, must load in less than 8 seconds.

As many web sites have graphical headers and navigation menus and buttons, it's the images that can account for a large part of the top page size.

On this site for example, the images that must load in the visible area within 8 seconds make up about 22KB. The HTML code in a page, plus the visible page text content, typically makes up about another 30KB per web page.

Since the content is contained within a page length of about 2000 pixels, with 300 for the header, only 200 of a 500 pixel page needs to load. This comes to about 25KB of visible content that can be loaded in under 4.5 seconds.

For someone using a higher PC screen resolution of 1024 x 768, the visible browser window for IE is about 1019 x 668. So this means more of the web page must load and in the case of this site, that's about 28KB of visible content or a load in under 5 seconds.

I said earlier that the best dial-up modem users are likely to achieve was 45Kb/s. But we haven't taken account of busy network times that can often result in connection speeds falling to typically 32Kb/s.

For my site example that means someone using a PC with the higher screen resolution, the same page would take 7 seconds to load into the visible area.

The images and pages on this site have all been optimized. You wouldn't expect it any other way would you!

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