Recently we added a new section to our web site evaluation report - page size. Why is this important? Because you have less than 10 seconds to make an impression on a visitor and if your page isn't showing something by then, you may well lose a visitor because they clicked on to something else in the meantime. It's rough out there! Our attention spans aren't what they used to be.

While researching page size and speed issues, I came upon a little script which will measure and report the speed of your site. It's called - what else - Site Speed! This nifty program measures how long it takes a web page to load. It requires PHP and can be loaded to track any kind of web page (HTML or scripted), and it's available for both Linux and Windows hosts.

http://www.numion.com/SiteSpeed/index.html

I've installed it on our home page and it's been tracking for a week - there are a few results to look at, anyway. If you click on the little N icon at the bottom of the page, it will bring up our stats.