host locally or in the USA?

[namon96]

(10-20-2010 09:05 PM)pmeenan Wrote:  If you have a link to test results I can provide some suggestions why that would be the case but I'm not all that surprised. If your base page is hosted in the US then that's going to be at least half of a second just in round trips to get the base page.

I'd also bet that the local server you were serving static files from is a shared server and probably horribly over-provisioned. It should be blazing fast to serve static files but if the server is overloaded it is probably taking longer than it should to respond (first byte times for static files should be pretty close to the socket connect time).

-Pat

Hi Patrick,

Here's one for you, all this optimizing is new to me, but I've found this site invaluable!

I'm working on two pages, Mobilo Live, being a site for kids educational toys I don't wont to degrade the images too much, so I've been concentrating on speeding up other aspects.

We use video, so I thought I'd combine the 3 video JS on our test page http://www.jadremtoys.com.au/mobilo/speedtestcloud.php into one.

I was quite surprised to find that combining the 3 scripts into one actually increased the overall load time.

Best regards
Norman