If you are a site owner, you know that nothing destroys traffic like a slow-loading site. The low traffic may not be a reflection of the site topic or content. It may be an indication of the frustration and impatience of people who have difficulty loading the site. One possible assessment tool to search out problems is YSlow from Yahoo!:

“YSlow analyzes Web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance Web sites…”

Link: YSlow

You may not understand the all detailed results. However, your site designer should know why the site is not optimized for speed and fix the problem / problems. Quick accessibility is fundamental to the success of your Web site. And this tool from Yahoo! is free.

Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
FlyingHamster

Tags: yahoo, yslow, speed, web site, accessibility, free, web designers