FACTORS THAT AFFECT

PERFORMANCE

BY LEWIS STEPHENSON

When creating a website, the effectiveness of the website can be down to the overall download speed and performance of the website.

Many factors affect the effectiveness of your website on users screens. I will hopefully help to explain what factors cause these problems and why.

The reason why the performance of a website is reduced is through these following three main factors: 1.Internet Quality2.Computer Quality 3.Website Content

INTERNET QUALITY

Internet Quality is affected through internet quality, depending on your ISP (Internet Service Provider.

Examples:

(An example of the different ISP’s available are providers such as Talk Talk, SKY, Tiscali, Virgin, BT, etc. these different providers will all offer various download speeds depending on your location.)

ISP’s offer are: 1, 2, 6, 12 and 20 MB download speeds. This means how much information they can download per second.

These factors all affect the quality and performance of your website.

COMPUTER QUALITY

The quality of your computer can affect the performance of your website. this is mainly through these factors below:

These factors all affect the quality of your computer, and its ability to generate a good display of your website; which intern will affect your websites performance.

Monitor – Visual Performance.Speakers – Audio Performance.Possible Wireless Router – (Speed of Internet)Computer – Overall Performance (Speed):

Short response time for a given piece of work. High throughput (rate of processing work). Low utilization of computing resource. High availability of the computing system or application. Fast (or highly compact) data compression and decompression. High bandwidth / short data transmission time.

WEBSITE CONTENT

The website content majorly affect the performance of your website. this is through:

• The Content – For example images, media, audio

• The Coding – the code which generates your website on screen

• The Creator – there decisions determine its effectiveness, W3C complicacy, interactions, etc.

I feel the website content can be altered and restricted through your decisions to create the final outcome and overall performance of the website; based on your decisions.

WEBSITE CONTENTIn addition website content can also be affected through these points:

Depending on what type of interaction you add, will vary in how much coding is needed.

. Interactions such as document downloads or images of different file sizes and resolutions will affect the speed your PC downloads this information and media.

When an image is of a higher resolution the size of the file will increase. When the size of the file increase it takes more time for the file to be downloaded within the coding of the website.

Analyse the possible behaviour of your websites performance once on the internet and then alter your website accordingly to how you believe the performance will be affected.

CONCLUSION

To conclude, I feel that following these three factors and improving them or altering them positively will greatly affect the performance of your website.

By having the correct hardware, website content and quality of internet you can create and effective and professional website with fast download speeds and little waiting time to boost performance.