Site speed tests

[EcommerceSite]

In webmaster tools my site is showing that it is taking longer and longer to load, and it has now doubled. Is there a way to check which pages are the problem? The site is quite large so I can't check them one at a time.

[Timmmmy]

If you are using Google Analytics, check under Content >> Site Speed >> Page Timings and you can sort by the largest load time first.

[Timmmmy]

Referencing this post, I also recently added this code “_gaq.push(['_setSiteSpeedSampleRate', 100]);” to my Google Analytics script in order to track page load on all page requests instead of 5% (roughly). I may not do this permanently but for now I'm getting tremendous feedback from Google Analytics regarding Page Load time using the report I just sent you

http://p.barker.dj/sitespeedtips

[ThompsonPaul]

As Tim mentions, it's critical that you add the customization for Site Speed Sample Rate to your Analytics tag if you are going to use Analytics to assess your users' actual page speed experience on your site (which it does quite well, once it's configured).

If you don't make this customization, Analytics is only tracking 1% of page views, which makes it essentially useless as the huge variations between a few individual users will badly skew the results.

Also note that for technical reasons, this process won't track pagespeed for iPhone mobile visits.

Paul