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/
There 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/
