Friday, January 18, 2008

Page load time and page references

Issues with your site or page loading? High Bounce Rates? Think you need better content? Maybe its the page itself.

This is a helpful tool when troubleshooting pages that load slowly. You can see if images are too big, or if certain css or script files are too big, etc. You can also see if a page is referencing images or script that are not in HTTPS format – which causes that annoying security alert.

And it's free!: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

I've tried it a few times on some of my sites, and have been able to cook it into some good analysis which leads to checking under the hood, rather than bringing in a copywriter. Check it out, see what you think...