SPEED: Analysis of Network Requests

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Those who regularly follow our vlog will know that the first video we made was for the presentation of SPEED, the tool developed by us to help you measure the speed of your website.

Since its inception, SPEED has already faced several innovations, the most significant was the generation of the report with the result obtained being able to be shared via email or on the main social channels.

So far SPEED has offered a type of high-level analysis with the presentation of some fundamental parameters such as:

The detail of the score divided into

with the related suggestions, it allows you to immediately put into practice all those actions that are needed to improve the total score and also the page loading time.

Today we want to present you with another important innovation that we have just introduced and which concerns NETWORK REQUESTS.

SPEED today allows you to analyze all the resources that are downloaded by the browser following a time base (which corresponds to the loading time of the analyzed page).

Let's see in detail what this type of analysis consists of.

For each resource, each phase the request goes through is explained in detail. The request consists of specific phases which are carried out in a precise order:

START is not a phase, but the actual moment in time of the request, for example when you write the URL of the domain you need to visit in the browser bar;

BLOCKED This phase may or may not occur, it all depends on how busy the browser is when you start the request to the domain with the send button

DNS RESOLUTION or the transformation of the domain name you are looking for into an IP address (we have already talked about domains and IP addresses in a previous video of our vlog)

CONNECTION is the opening of the communication channel between the browser and the server where the domain is hosted

HTTPS If the domain you are looking for is in HTTPS then this additional connection encryption phase is needed

SEND This is the actual moment in which the browser request is sent to the server

WAIT This is the waiting time for the server response

RECEPTION this phase is the actual download of the resource for which the request was made (for example if it is an image the reception corresponds to the actual download of the image which will be visible on the loaded web page).

As you may have understood, this is a type of analysis aimed at more technical people who want to verify, resource by resource, all the phases and the time taken to receive and load the page.

In the Network Request Detail graph on SPEED, the resources are sorted based on the time in which they respond to the request. An optimal situation will therefore present a very vertical graph, which corresponds to the parallel execution of multiple requests (and therefore a shorter loading time).

If a more "staircase" graph appears, it means that in order to receive a request the previous request must be completed, and this obviously affects the total loading time of your web page.

What are you waiting for? Go to SPEED to test this new feature to analyze in detail all the requests and all the resources of your site and don't forget to share the report obtained.

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