ELCA Web and Multimedia Development Blog

Today I found a great tool for checking your website load time. Googlelabs has created “Page Speed,” and I have found it to be very handy. Not only does it give you a page speed rating from 1 to 100, but it tells you what you can do to speed up your load time. It breaks these suggestions up in to high, medium and low priority.

Why should you care about load times? Besides the obvious inconvenience to your readers, your load time affects your SEO (Search Engine Optimization). In other words, sites like Yahoo! and Google use load times to determine ranking.

Have you found any other cool tools to help optimize your site?

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