Magento Hosting Speed Test Tool
While comparing our new PHP5 Magento Hosting we found this speed test site. Although UK based Magento eCommerce Hosts are, for the moment, few in number, we thought we would create a Spreadsheet Tool to use the Internet Supervision speed test to compare our speed against other Hosting providers. The calculator allows you to run speed tests on a Web Hosts Demo Magento site (most Hosts have an example Hosted Magento site, for examples see the Magento forums) and compare them against each other.
As a lot of you will be aware, the geographical location of your Web Hosting affects the speed at which your target market will experience your site. For example, a site Hosted in the UK, aimed at the UK, is always faster than a site Hosted in the US targeting the UK – as the distance between the server and end users is greater. Our tool allows you to see which Host is best suited to your geographical location and target audience. It proved useful to us, maybe it will be useful for you J…
For best results (and patient people!) it is best to do 3 or more tests on the URL and then use the average results in the calculator – there is an average calculator on sheet 2 of the Spreadsheet. It is also worth testing a variety of pages – for instance, the main page and the checkout page – to get a better idea of performance.
User Comments
Janet
On April 21, 2008 at 4:33 am
Magento was designed with the notion that each eCommerce implementation has to be unique since no two businesses are alike. Magento’s modular architecture puts the control back in the hands of the online merchant and places no constraints on business processes and flow.
Sarah K
On May 31, 2008 at 8:59 am
Nice development. I use a tool like: http://www.tools.mywikiinfo.com/test_your_website_speed.php
to do the same thing but it does not put out geographic information such as your describes.
Keep up up the good work!
Sarah,
Ger
On July 8, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Good post and some useful information – especially to a developer in the Republic of Ireland.
Please send me details of your Magento Hosting plan.
Kaspar
On March 21, 2009 at 1:41 am
Can I also have price and speed test of your Magento hosting. We have Bytemart dedicated atom server with 2GB of memory and it’s still slow.
fred perry
On February 19, 2010 at 8:57 pm
I’m getting terrible result on those. Any idea what i can tweak?
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