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SiteSpeedLab can't measure the latency of the about.com. While performing tests we do not get responses from the remote server 207.241.148.80.
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 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester
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WebSite Speed Profile

Site Speed Success Formula = good website latency + fast DNS lookup + high page load speed.
Site Speed Laboratory offers analysis of DNS Lookup speed & latency tests (ping) & Page Load speed for every website. Our analysis is based on data for May 25 2011. Since the first of July 2010 we carried out 23 tests from locations
for the main page of this website, the last of which were made about 3585 hours ago

Tests Summary

DNS Summary

Page Speed Summary

Site Speed Laboratory Summary for this website

Location Ping Ping,
change		 DNS Lookup DNS Resolve,
change		 Page Speed Page Speed,
change
 Usa
50.80% of traffic		 NY, New York — — 68 ms 70 % 65.64 Kb/s 49%
Florida, Tampa — — 275 ms 6 %
 Germany
1.70% of traffic		 Frankfurt — — 352 ms 35 %
 Canada
3.50% of traffic		 Montreal — — 50 ms —
 United Kingdom
4.90% of traffic		 Gloucester — — 121 ms —

Summary Widget

SiteSpeedLab Overall Website Rating for this website
Based on our speed test results table and considering features of the current webserver location (United states, New york), we concluded
overall This website speed rank is 36. That means 36% of the sites from the New york are slower for visitors than this website.

It is important to understand that you can't evaluate website speed without considering website audience location. You should evaluate the speed of the site considering location of your primary audience (visitors), and not just from abstract tests from various points of the planet. There is a chance that your website is quite slow for visitors from German but pretty quick for Australian users at the same time. Based on a primary audience location data Site Speed Laboratory maintains objective rating. Test servers located in the Usa and United Kingdom are more useful and important to About.com because the shares of each country are 50.80 and 4.90 percent respectively.

You should not overestimate the importance of the website speed factor. Google has more than 200 ranking factors and website speed is just one of them.

DNS Lookup Speed

Browser should lookup domain name and get IP address of the server (207.241.148.80) before downloading the page. We test DNS resolve for this domain from 5 locations. That's how we've got the average time of receiving IP: 0.17s (which is better than 18% of all sites). For more detailed stats look at DNS tests graph and DNS resolve page for United states, New york location (Average value on the widget is an average DNS resolve time for websites hosted at the same location).

DNS History Graph

Compare DNS From Servers
Usa▼
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
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 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss
Compare DNS From Servers
Usa▼
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
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 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss
Compare DNS From Servers
Usa▼
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
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 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss
Compare DNS From Servers
Usa▼
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
The chart will appear within this DIV. This text will be replaced by the chart.
 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss

Compare DNS Speed

Compare DNS Lookup


vs

Our Servers
Usa
NY, New York
Florida, Tampa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester

The table below shows the dynamic of the DNS Lookup speed changes for the website from various locations.

Location Last check 7 day change 1 month change 3 month change 6 month change
 Usa
50.80% of traffic		 NY, New York 68 ms — — — 25%
132/175 ms
Florida, Tampa 275 ms — — — 15%
202/176 ms
 Germany
1.70% of traffic		 Frankfurt 352 ms — — — 15%
307/360 ms
 Canada
3.50% of traffic		 Montreal 50 ms — — — 29%
45/63 ms
 United Kingdom
4.90% of traffic		 Gloucester 121 ms — — — 411%
720/141 ms

Fragment of New york DNS Speed rating table for this website

The table is constructed according to the data from the US datacenters

# Domain Compare DNS Resolve Speed Provider
1. Wate.com 15 ms Savvis Communications Corporation
2. Klfy.com 15 ms Savvis Communications Corporation
3. Brainfuse.com 15 ms Savvis Communications Corporation
... ... ... ... ...
3630. Dementia.org 172 ms Road Runner Business
3631. Larsonboats.com 172 ms Peer 1 Network
3632. About.com 173 ms About
3633. Tacobell.com 173 ms Rackspace Hosting
3634. Free-career-test.com 173 ms Canada Web Hosting
... ... ... ... ...
4456. Pinoyshow.tv 3272 ms Fortressitx

Page Speed Test

Content-Type's Weights
 
 
Content-Type's Weights by Hosts
 
 
Downloading page itself is the final stage of the testing. Actually, this is the last stage, after which page is displayed completely for user. The download speed depends on many factors. Main factors are the following: the width of the bandwidth up to the domain, the number of simultaneous download threads, speed of the server, a distance between user and domain web server. Recent measurements have shown the speed of page download for this domain is 65.645Kb/s (which is better than 36% of all sites in this region). For more detailed stats check out report for New york hosted websites.

 
 
 

Page Speed

Page Speed is a key factor in the website speed estimations (along with DNS lookup speed and website latency). Speed of the page loading, sophisticated subdomains usage for static content (images, css), optimized code (html, js), hosting on fast servers with good latency to its audience leads to good results and, ultimately, to a good website profitability.

While conducting tests we emulate a visit your website using the browser Firefox 3.5.6. Test results of the page loading listed in this table:

Pagespeed Flash Table


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