One of our clients showed us a site for Website Optimization called Web Page Analyzer

One of his friends had tried his website as input in Web Page Analyzer and the result had many warnings, etc for the site. So he wanted to make sure everything was ok.

I tried the same and I got the following results:

TOTAL_SIZE – Warning! The total size of this page is 459078 bytes, which will load in 94.09 seconds on a 56Kbps modem. Consider reducing total page size to less than 100K to achieve sub 20 second response times on 56K connections. Pages over 100K exceed most attention thresholds at 56Kbps, even with feedback.

IMAGES_SIZE – Warning! The total size of your images is 149086 bytes, which is over 100K. Consider switch graphic formats to achive smaller file sizes (from JPEG to PNG for example). Finally, substitute CSS techniques for graphics techniques to create colored borders, backgrounds, and spacing.

MULTIM_SIZE – Warning! The total size of your external multimedia is 298365 bytes, which is over 30K. Consider optimizing your multimedia files for size, or replacing them with lower-bandwidth alternatives, or eliminating them altogether.

From the three issues identified above, we could notice a real issue – the first one – ie. the file contents were not compressed.
The other two issues are just the fact that the site requires large images and multimedia files.

I realized one thing – sites like this one is quite useful as they can be verified by the QA team – by adding it to the QA Testing Checklist at Auro Infotech and verifying each item identified. The idea is that the site should have been developed with all the key points in mind to have it optimized for speed, search engines, coding standards, design standards, etc. This site, similar to the W3C validator, can be added to our QA Testing Checklist to make sure we check the site before we give to our clients.

Have you seen something similar? Please do let us know.