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With the increasing use of the internet for business and pleasure the infrastructure has to expand and adapt. So what does this have to do with your website? Besides getting ready for more business by increasing your promotional tactics you have to make sure the path to your website is an easy path with few stops lights. They are other areas where your website may need improving to speed up it browsing ability but in this article I will focus on the lines that connect your website to your potential customers.

On the internet surfers are always in a hurry to get information. If you make them wait too long, with a click of the mouse they can go somewhere else.

Most websites hosted on services such as Angelfire, Tripod, GeoCities, HyperMart, FreeYellow will see the greatest increase in how fast their website downloads. With free webpages comes many hassles. You are in a group of many hosted on a very high trafficked server and not to mention the hosting companies advertising placed on your site for this free service. This combination can really slow your pages and cause you to lose potential customers who didn't want to wait.

If your website is not hosted on a free webpage server the cause of the slowness could be your graphics, the way your site is laid out, where your visitors are coming from, your isp, a slow down in a router on the way, time of day when your site receive it's most traffic. One of these is the culprit. However, this article focuses on the path it takes for you to visit your site and the path it takes your visitors which you have no control over. Similar to a highway, sometimes information can come to a standstill and case a slow down. Routers, hubs, high speed lines all work together to make sure the highway always runs at peak performance and traffic flows are green lights all the way. At certain times of the day traffic will increase and information will slow minimally or drastically. In my case I had a bottleneck on a router not under my control.

Mainly the problem is not how many hops it will take, because this will increase as you are farther from the main server. Also hops take very little time so it does not count toward the actual slow down. What is the main cause of the bottle neck is how long the information take to pass the router. Most of the time, you will pass the router within 20ms - 80ms, however, when you start seeing 800-1000ms this is when the bottle neck starts. When you see a router with this amount of ping time, you now know where the bottle neck is starting at.

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