Thursday, November 16, 2006

Picking a Hosting Company - Focus on speed....

Using http://www.search-engine-mechanics.co.uk/speed.htm, I can tell what speed sites load at. While this could be a function of a badly designed web page, it might also be due to the hosting company. Slow is bad, fast is good.

Losers - netfirms
Winner - Sultanhosting

Domain name - Size - Load time (secs) -Average Speed per KB - hosting co.

01 www.learninggamesforkids.com 19.55 KB 0.22 seconds 0.01 seconds sultanhosting FAST
02 www.time4learning.com 21.04 KB 0.36 seconds 0.02 seconds webstream GOOD
03 www.homeschoolonline.org 74.87 KB 2.18 seconds 0.03 seconds netfirms SLOW
04 www.edelson.info 0.69 KB 0.16 seconds 0.23 seconds bellsouth FAST
05 www.todays-learners.com 18.23 KB 0.21 seconds 0.01 seconds sultanhosting FAST
06 www.homeschool-curriculum-review.com 4.66 KB 1.67 seconds 0.36 seconds netfirms SLOW

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