The need for speed

The speed of a website is very important. According to Akamai nowadays a website should have a respons of  max 2 seconds. According to Jacob Nielsen a good site have a respons of max 1 second.

Yahoo has a great tool for Firebug users. It is called YSlow and gives an indication of the speed of your website. Testing the websites with YSlow give the following results:

1. bol.com Grade E, Overall performance score 58
2. funda.nl Grade B, Overall performance score 80
3. helenahoeve.nl Grade A, Overall performance score 92
4. mobiel.nu.nl Grade C, Overall performance score 78
5. philips.nl Grade C, Overall performance score 70
6. postbus51.nl Grade D, Overall performance score 69
7. rabobank.nl Grade C, Overall performance score 70
8. vrom.nl Grade D, Overall performance score 67
9. m.wehkamp.nl Grade C, Overall performance score 77
10. wnf.nl Grade E, Overall performance score 56

This gives the following ranking:

Testing the websites with tools.pingdom.com gives these results:

1. bol.com 160 objects, 9.1 seconds
2. funda.nl 13 objects, 1.2 seconds
3. helenahoeve.nl 19 objects, 0.7 seconds
4. mobiel.nu.nl 20 objects, 1.1 seconds
5. philips.nl 4 objects, 1.7 seconds
6. postbus51.nl 100 objects, 2.7 seconds
7. rabobank.nl 78 objects, 3.1 seconds
8. vrom.nl 38 objects, 1.6 seconds
9. m.wehkamp.nl 46 objects, 1.7 seconds
10. wnf.nl 285 objects, 6.3 seconds

The ranking order is the following:

helenahoeve.nl is the only site which speed is below one second!

The ranking is:

1. helenahoeve.nl
2. funda.nl, mobiel.nu.nl, philips.nl, vrom.nl, m.wehkamp.nl
3. bol.com, postbus51.nl, rabobank.nl, wnf.nl