Broadband Speedtest

This page features a quick (or maybe not) test of your internet connection to this server, testing both your broadband download speed and your upload speed.

The spread of broadband has transformed web design, allowing designers to create web pages with not only larger, better-quality images but also video, audio and rich-media content that would have been out of the question a few years ago.

That being said, we have to consider that a proportion of vistors will be using 56kbps dial-up, so a web page must still be designed to load quickly, presenting any rich-media content as an optional feature.

server speed

Most web sites are hosted on shared servers, sharing not only disc space but bandwidth. In other words, your broadband connection is only as fast as the web site you're visiting.

Supposing, for example, that you have an 8 megabit broadband connection, that's the speed you can expect when downloading from a fast server. Depending on how busy this (shared) server happens to be, regardless of the "speed" of your broadband, you can expect to get anything between 650kbps and 3500kbps (i.e. up to 2 megabits per second). That's how fast a static html web page will load on this server... at this particular time.
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