Do you ever feel that your web site might be loading a little slowly?
I have had this concern for awhile. The problem is, I live in the UK and one of my servers is in the USA. I don’t know how much of the delay is due to server location. For instance, between my PC and my hosting server there are 22 hops – in other words the data is passed through 22 servers.
How do I know this? The tracert command. On windows, open up a command window and type:
tracert your domain For example: tracert ideas-for-marketing.com
You will then see each of the servers along the route to your webhost (and the time each one takes).
What this means is that the speed at which a web page loads is largely dependent on server location / hops and not just how you designed your page. So what you see is not necessarily what somebody else sees.
Here is a tool that will allow you to check the speed of your server:
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