Find out how fast somebody can download content from your site.
You can measure the effective bandwidth of your users on your site relatively easily, and if the effective bandwidth of users viewing your pages is substantially below their available downstream bandwidth, it might be worth attempting to improve this.
Before giving the browser any external object references (<img src="...">, <link rel="stylesheet" href="...">, <script src="...">, etc), record the current time. After the page load is done, subtract the time you began, and include that time in the URL of an image you reference off of your server.
Sample javascript implementing this:
Find out how fast somebody can download content from your site.
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Links how to scale the web, mainly php
Updated on Aug 02, 09
Created on Apr 10, 09
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