Page Load Speed
Aside from your websites being available, the webpages should also be able to load as fast as possible. Most surfers would not want to waste their time just waiting for a single page to load. Thus, you should choose a hosting service that has a fast server even during peak times.
Actually how fast your website to load depends on several factors, including your visitors' type of connections and the capacity of data transfer provided.
Many people said that you should find a hosting company that provides enough capacity of data transfer, uses T3 connection and provides multiple connections. But there is no way for customers to check such facilities themselves (except if they visit the company's office). In other words, a hosting company can claim that they provide such facilities but as a customer you may will never know the truth. That is why besides reading hosting plan carefully it is also a good idea to check the load speed by yourself.
To perform the page load speed test you can try to open/visit one of their customers' websites. Usually there are customers that showed their websites on the company's forum. Just visit their websites. But please notice the result also depends on your internet connection and your physical location. In fact to be able to get accurate test results, the test should be performed from different locations or at least from the location of your target markets.
Then visit Zeald.com. Just fill in the blank box with the domain name you want to check. Here is the example of the result you will get. It is based on the testing I performed with this site.
The speed of a web host is always one factor that you should look for as a website owner. Don't choose a cheap but unrealiable hosting provider since it could hurt your business.
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