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8:32 am
February 5, 2011
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Buck Inspire
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Hi all,
Is there a good tool to check your website load speed? I recently added hyper cache and db cache reloaded plugins to improve my site's performance. I guess I should have ran the speed test before I made the change. Just curious if these plugins are making a big difference. For regular visitors, mind if you stop by to see if it feels faster? The plugins were implemented yesterday morning. For me, sometimes it feels faster, sometimes slower, and sometimes the same!!! 
http://buckinspire.com
Thanks,
Buck 
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8:46 am
February 5, 2011
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moneycone
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Definitely feels faster Buck!
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8:46 am
February 5, 2011
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moneycone
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Definitely feels faster Buck!
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9:35 am
February 5, 2011
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Buck Inspire
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Thanks MC! I couldn't tell anymore, think my head is playing tricks on me again. 
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10:57 am
February 5, 2011
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The College Investor
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I'm working on the same thing! I installed the Page Speed plug-in for Firefox, and it gave me a ton of different things to address (still working on a few, but my speed has increased according to the plug-in.
Also, Google's Webmaster Tools has a Site Diagnostic link that shows your page speed over time. It only updates weekly or so, but it should reflect your changes soon!
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10:43 pm
February 5, 2011
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Buy Like Buffett
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Alexa shows your site speed. i view it on the Alexa page.
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6:46 am
February 6, 2011
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Pingdom has a tool to show your site speed.
Google's Page Speed gives you a score but doesn't actually tell you the time.
There's a thread in here somewhere about improving your page's speed with additional tools. GTMetrix.com was one mentioned I think.
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4:22 pm
February 6, 2011
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Barbara Friedberg
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Hi buck, My host is GoDaddy and they just switched my site (at my request) to a grid format, and it's speed is much faster!
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6:51 pm
February 6, 2011
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Hey Buck,
I find http://www.webpagetest.org/ to be excellent for measuring site speed. It breaks everything down into very comprehensive reports down to the individual requests. However, it tends to report times that seem slower than you might expect because even after your main content loads there can still be lots of other requests happening from all your widgets and ads. So just keep that in mind when looking at the results.
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9:23 am
February 7, 2011
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SavingMentor said:
Hey Buck,
I find http://www.webpagetest.org/ to be excellent for measuring site speed. It breaks everything down into very comprehensive reports down to the individual requests. However, it tends to report times that seem slower than you might expect because even after your main content loads there can still be lots of other requests happening from all your widgets and ads. So just keep that in mind when looking at the results.
Thanks for this link! My site is pretty slow. 
I need to optimize it a lot more.
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11:18 pm
February 7, 2011
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Buck Inspire
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Hi all,
Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate your help. Hopefully I can tweak my site into a speed demon soon, haha.
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12:59 pm
February 21, 2011
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Markt
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Another test
http://siteloadtest.com
That one seems very plain, but you could be surprised.
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