Using HttpWatch to Measure Page Load Times for New and Existing Users

May 05th, 2008 - 6:22PM

If you’re tuning a web page’s performance there are two types of visitors that you need to be concerned about: A new visitor to your site who won’t have any of your pages, scripts, CSS or images in their browser cache. An existing user of your site who will have your cacheable pages, scripts, CSS or images in their browser cache. Visitor type 1) is said to be in the Empty Cache state and Vistor type 2) is said to be in the Primed Cache state. Optimizing for visitors with an empty cache is important as their initial impressions of your site … Continue reading →