: What Internet connection speeds are webpage testing sites basing their results on? The loading time of websites can be measured with many popular tools like tools.pingdom.com, Alexa, and more...

@Harper822

I got the answer from comments. All credits should go to the commentators.


Load times are dependant upon several factors such as DNS domain name
resolution, the network between the requesting computer and the web
server, the speed of the web server, and of course the connection
speed between the web sever and the web. For these measures, a users
computer and connection speed is not a factor. Why? Because these
measures are between a service such as Google and the web server and
not between a user browser and web server. Generally, these measures
take into account the load time of the HTML and not necessarily the
resources, though that is a consideration too. closetnoc





Keep your site download lean. If your webserver has a larger load then
you will need to tune the sever or upgrade it. For example, simply
adding cache memory to Apache and MySQL often will speed up the server
tremendously. Using a raid helps too. Memory is always your friend but
having too much memory can slow down an OS depending. If your speed is
good, don't sweat it! closetnoc





As closetnoc indicates, for sites that provide page loading tests
which do not allow you to set the connection speed, the load time is
based on the connection speed to their server, which is why many will
assign a performance rating based on a predetermined scale, or
relative to the average sites they test (like with Pingdom). Some
sites do however let you chose the connection speed, such as
webpagetest.org, recommended by Google. If you click on the Advanced
Settings link, you can select the connection speed there (which is
likely simulated via throttling). dan

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