Redirect Speed Tester
Do you know how fast you your redirects are and how long it will take till your visitors get to the original target urls? How long will it take that search engine bots like google bot follow your redirects? Here you can test the speed of your redirects. Try out now!
Definition
- Redirect Time
- Time in seconds for all redirection steps before the final transation was startet. This includes name lookup time, connect time, pretransfer time and transfer time of all redirections before the last transaction was startet. This includes all multiple redirections.
- Lookup time
- Time in seconds it took to resolve the name
- Connect time
- Time in seconds it took to connect the remote host.
- Pretransfer time
- Time in seconds it took to start the file transfer.
- Starttransfer Time
- Time in seconds it took until the first byte was transferred.
- Total Time
- Time in seconds it took for the full operation.
Redirect performance
Redirect or better multible Redirects in a chain can have a high impact on page load time. Redirect time is the time before your own page starts to load. Depending on the server load and the number of redirects in a chain you can loose up to 1 second before the target page starts to load.
User Experience
A Study from amazon For showed that every 100ms increase in load time of Amazon.com decreased sales by 1% (Kohavi and Longbotham 2007). Optimizing your redirects can be one option to get more performance and better user experience.
Facts
- max 0.1 seconds is the limit, that a user will not recognize any special delay
- 1 second - the user will notice the delay. This will make him feel to have a interruption.
- 10 seconds - the user attention will be interrupted. Try to give feedback, that the page will be loaded in a short time.
Tips to improve redirect speed
- try to reduce redirects
- use server side redirects
- minimyse redirect chains
- use server side redirects
- prefetch DNS lookups
