unit 34 Unit 2 - p2

unit 2 p2

 Download Speeds

 the website viewer has their own connection set up at home, or a work place it can effect their download speeds, for instance if they have a direct connection to their ISP (internet service provider) without interference, use Ethernet instead of wireless and don’t have other devices taking up network bandwidth, their download speeds will be faster. If this is the case, then they should have no problem while loading web-pages, but even if they have many devices and not a direct link to their ISP the website will usually load quickly anyway due to the fact that ISP providers offer a fast download speeds.


PC Performance Factors
There are different factors when it comes to viewing and loading a website that come down to the viewers’ computer (i.e. having installed plug-ins )

Browser

Depending on what browser is being used to view the website, it can affect the viewers’. One of the most common problems encountered when viewing a website with a browser is if that specific browser does not support certain objects that are placed within the website.

Cache Memory
Cache memory is used by your browser to load commonly visited website pages more quickly, if the user is visiting a lot of web pages, it’s recommended to have a higher cache memory capacity which can be configured from within the browsers settings.

Processor speed
 the viewer of a website does not have a good processor, it will take longer for website pages to display. A better processor would typically make website pages load quicker especially if they are hosting images, videos and other objects such as animation.


Server Side Factors
Server side factors also affect the users, because it can determine different factors to loading a web page.

Available Bandwidth

Bandwidth is how much the user can download through their ISP. A higher bandwidth basically means that the user can download more.
Before the web page get fully loaded, JavaScript and then the body and so forth. This is why when you load a web page and if it loads slowly

Number of Hits
The number of hits on a web page is requests sent by someone’s computer to a server that hosts the web-page, each one that’s downloaded is called a hit. Although it can give a rough estimate of how many viewers there are if you know how many hits are going to be downloaded per page.


Performance Issues and Solutions

The performance of a website can bewhen a number of different factors are taken.Sometimes there are simple methods that can be put into place to improve a websites performance.The only performance issues that could be is website browsers are if they are not maintained in a proper manner, this can prevent it from browsing the web at its maximum speed.