I have known that our new HTN Cloud Hosting accounts were fast compared to our legacy VPS accounts but, until tonight, I had not found a concise way to show it. Enter Google Webmaster Tools. The crawl stats page includes a graph which neatly shows the average time to load a page from our site.
Page load times dropped dramatically when the site moved to an HTN Cloud Hosting account
This graph shows the average time required to download a page from the Hen’s Teeth Network web site. Can you tell when we moved it from an old VPS to a new Cirrus account?
Our site is reasonably complex for a “brochure site” since every page is PHP and touches a MySQL database. In early February, we moved the site with absolutely no changes to its new home. Page load times dropped to 25-33% of what they had been. Not only does the site feel faster, it’s measurable.