Explaining Pingdom Results
I am trying to optimize page load times and I am using Pingdom to check the response times of a site. However, I'm not entirely sure what the various components of the "timeline" mean.
Link example: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/?url=http://neosmart.net/forums//&id=2230361
According to them, the part of the bar that is yellow is the time between the "start" and the "connection", and the part of the bar that is green is the time between the "connect" and the "first byte" with the blue section is the actual transmission time (time between "first byte" and "last byte").
If I try the first two (which takes a very long time in my case), what's the recommended course of action?
Thanks.
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I contacted Pingdom Support, this was the answer I got:
Hi Mahmoud,
Thank you for contacting us.
Your assumptions are really mostly Correct: the yellow part is the time to resolve the hostname and similarly (before the connection initiated to the web server), the green part connects to the server network, and the blue part is the time it takes to fetch the content from the web server.
If you have any more questions, please let us know.
Best wishes,
Aron Lander Pingdom
www.pingdom.com
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