Do it yourself...

Many things effect the sucsess of a website.

  • How it loads
  • How it works
  • How it looks to humans
  • How it looks to search engines

Have a look websiteoptimization.com to see the overal proformance of a site inrelation to the stucture and underlying code.
As a rule of thumb, if your site is taking longer than 10 - 12seconds to load over a 56k dial-up modem, you are losing visitors
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

 

browsersThere are many different type of browsers (The program you use to view web pages)as well as many differant "Operating Systems"

  • Windows (98, 2000, XP and Vista)
  • Linux (many varied types)
  • Mac (OS9 and OSX versions)

All of these render web pages slightly differently.
Use this site to see how your site looks in these differ ant environments.
http://browsershots.org/

 

Search Engines see a web page very differently to how you and I see one.
To see how your site (or your competitors site) looks to a search engine, visit.
http://www.seo-browser.com/

Search Engines