ELCA Web and Multimedia Development Blog
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Check Your Pageload Times
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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on July 28th, 2011 at 3:34 pm
YSlow! is a great plugin for firefox & chrome. It helped us realize our images were pretty large in size which helped shave at least a second off of our load time.