The number of sites today is more than likely in the millions and it is rapidly increasing on a daily basis. The main reason of this growth is that you do not need an office, employees, and any other expense or physical proof so everyone is willing to start an online venture. It is very easy way to be an entrepreneur. Sites are easy to start. You need a niche, a designer, and content, however, you may be wondering what else you might need to become successful.

Traffic is the most important issue regarding websites. An average site has several thousand visitors per day. With the passage of time and massive increases of traffic, data also grows and can go out of its limit. Data includes cookies, parameters, images, and objects. This data is very beneficial but can kill your site if it is not handled properly. All of this data including traffic can make your website sluggish and slow to load. Although, getting traffic to your website is difficult, getting retuning users is more difficult. If someone becomes annoyed while visiting your website, they are not likely to return.

This can be very hard for you to realize on your own since no one is going to email you or call you on the telephone to let you know your website is slow. For such purposes, there is a test or technique, which is called performance testing.

How many seconds does it take your website to load? Everything revolves around this factor. In a few seconds, everything should be loaded well. This includes content, images, flash movies, css objects, external objects and files, dynamic variables, and struts. A single webpage would be very complicated based on above listed objects. The performance test is your companion to monitor everything without much hassle. You can perform this test via several software programs, some of those are available online for free, and some will have to be downloaded and installed.

Websiteoptimization.com provides this service free. Webperformanceinc.com and siteloadtesting.com are available to download. You can find also find several other tools to help with performance test on your website.

Most common statistics or stats are under. Global Statistics • Total HTTP Requests • Total Size Object Size Totals • HTML • HTML Images • CSS Images • Total Images • JavaScript • CSS • Multimedia External Objects • Total HTML • Total HTML Images • Total CSS Images • Total Images • Total Scripts • Total CSS imports • Total Frames • Total Iframes

Download time and details about the page objects are two other categories, which define how much time your website or page would take to appear on different speeds of internet connection available. Page objects shows all objects on your page with the URL and size so you can access all objects and can perform necessary tasks.

In the end, the best advice is that that total size of your page should be less than 30K. You should replace graphic rollovers with css rollovers to reduce total page size. Complicated scripts and structure will also increase the size of page so you should be careful when choosing scripting language and graphics.