I used to hate my previous layout, the page took forever to load. Best I can do is to minimize the site widgets, but still I received complaints from friends about the slow poke load so nak tak nak I had to dump some of the widgets I desired the most hukhuk. Someone asked me why bother, it’s my blog anyway. I replied, yeah true but still I like people to read here and comment, so it has to be balanced; I get visitors and they too will continue to come, a win-win situation. Sacrifice kata orang putih..

So how to know if your blog is fast or not? I use this, it’s from Pingdom. Free, no ads and it gives detail and fancy good looking results. Easy to spot which thing/widget/picture that use large resources. They have Save option too, allowing us to analyze the results from time to time.

Fast loading time is essential for a blogger to consider. Taking me as example, I won’t visit sites that took years to load, mostly because the main site are filled with thousand widgets i.e clock, autoplay music, bunny pictures, pet, advertisement banners etc. It’s their blog so I won’t interfere with that but I don’t think I will visit him/her again, maybe once in a while but not often. Plus for people with restricted bandwidth usage like me will surely avoid such sites.

Data for my blog, 4.5secs to load (not bad but I dunno la with Malaysia’s line kan). Total data usage was 999.2kb which is a lot! If I want to target all sort of people to view my blog, I have to include people with dial-up connection too, with 4kbps max, they will need like 30mins to load this blog. Tak boleh tak boleh…