On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 09:28 +1000, Roger wrote: > I have been asked to test whether sites we are building with Drupal 7 > will load rapidly, and what the response time may be for each page > when accessed with a minimal or older style computer which is on dial > up, etc, possibly with less than optimal copper to exchanges and > homes, etc. Currently the sites are in test phase, not live. > Where there are images on the site, these are few and minimal, 72dpi > and not larger than 300px square, most are on or below 150kb in size. > > I have built functional html/css sites in the past and have a basic > understanding of how to construct a site that loads and responds under > those conditions but have no idea whether Drupal/php provides similar > load times for pages. You've hit the nail on the head with regards to the usual culprits (number of graphics on the page, and filesize of them). Usually they have more of an effect on low-speed browsing than whatever generated the page. Unless your dynamic generator has to do a lot of negotiation back and forth to render a page; or your server is overloaded, then all browsers get a slow experience. There are throttling options for proxy servers, like Squid, so you could try browsing through it (when throttled) to see a slower network response. But that's not really a true test, slow networks have latency issues, too, not just slower throughput. There probably are some on-line tests for slow browsing. You could possibly see how it goes browsing through one of those anonymising servers, as an external throttler to your experience. These days, you also test how a site will work on someone's mobile phone. Since they're becoming more common, and they bring their own set of problems. Whenever someone shows off their new phone toy to me, I always have a bash at my own website on it. Horrid things, though. You really need a magnifying glass and a tiny pointing stick to use them... -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
