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Help Info

• Commands & buttons
  Or general "how to" information
• Installation & deinstallation
  Download-use-delete-forget product :-)
• Large tests
  Where to use many page loads...

How to use this tool?

The average speed of some site/page is only 3 steps away:

1. Enter the URL address in the top-left field
2. Fill the number of page loads in the box below
3. Click "Test" and wait some time (depending on target page speed and your internet connection)

The result will be calculated and shown in the yellow box in Bytes per Second.

Note that this is relative speed - the tool is trying to simulate user behaviour and is counting the whole process - DNS requests, resolving host IP, negotiation with the server, downloading the page code and even loading the page into the respective box. This is very close to the usual browser behaviour.

Note 2: The tool will download only the source code - no javascript or image or other file will be downloaded.

As additional functionality, ou can get the page source itself (loaded in the left box) and the history of all tests performed - in the right box.

The respective "Save" and "Copy to Clipboard" buttons can be used if you want to save/paste somewhere the page code or the results (history log). Note that when you use the "Save" or "Copy to..." buttons under the left box (downloaded page source) - you will esport all the code downloaded - if you download the page 3 times, the code will be repeated 3 times too...

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Installation & deinstallation

To use this tool, just download and run. To remove it - just delete the tool. No registry records or other installation.

If you download the zip archive - you will need to extract file first. However - Last versions of Windows are smart enought to auto-decompress zip files, so you can just open the archive and start program directly.

Note that (depending on your Firewall software, if installed) you may be asked by your Firewall to give access to this tool to the Internet. It must have such access rights in order to download pages from the net, and you cannot use the tool if you deny to permit it to access the net.

Download the compressed .zip file - 201 KB - RECOMMENDED (After saving the file on your computer, just extract the archive and that's it - the program is installed)

 

Download the executable as .exe file - 206 KB ( note that windows will warn you about downloading executable file) Or even - if you want - you can directly open the program from our shared hosting server

 

To remove this tool - just delete the file. No other uninstall procedure required.

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Large tests

If you want to perform very large test (more than 100 page loads) - the program will alert you. This is just a check that you really want to perform such a test. Be careful if you test real,live remote sites with more than 100 connections!

DO NOT USE MORE THAN 100 PAGE LOADS FOR TESTING REMOTE SITES.

I didn't restrict the total number of retries because for localhost pages it can be useful if we can attack the page with much more requests.

DO NOT USE THIS FOR TESTING SITES WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS!