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1. Is there any tool where I can check the page speed of a website.

2. for a site like http://syncfin.com where i have to use 4 bright images, is there any particular format I should keep the images in. Basically when there are multiple heavy images to be loaded , what would be the best strategy to optimize the page speed.

thanks in advance for any pointers to relevant articles and tips.

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Use a RUM tool - Google Analytics is the easiest one but up the sample rate - Torbit, LogNormal and others are available.

Use WebPageTest.org to carry out spot tests.

Thanks youngtaff. I also googled a bit and found out http://loadimpact.com . It is very good . I did analysis of my site ( http://loadimpact.com/test/view/1262390) on this and that shows the effect of shared hosting on it. !!

you could load a small placeholder (1x1 solid-white .gif, etc.), load the massive images with javascript, then animate them in once they are loaded. still have to stick with the current setup when javascript is disabled though!

Thanks a lot.

Btw, I found out some pretty nice online tools.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed and http://loadimpact.com

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