When loading my site http://www.wealthdaily.com/, (the site is in php) firebug is saying that small (< 5 kb) images are taking over 5 SECONDS to load! This is not blocking but it is killing overall page load time. Images are being loaded by apache with mod_rewrite.
When I load one of the images individually firebug says it only take ~ < 20 ms for each image, which sounds like it is more accurate. I realize lots of things are going on on the full page load that could influence this, but cause these to take 4 seconds apiece to load, seems a little far out.
The images are Loading fine, it’s the speed that firefox claims they are loading at. Smallish images are taking 5 seconds. Could a misconfigured apache be causing this slowness when there are lots of requests??
Is there a tool that can accurately time how long it takes for a page to load?
Is firebug to be trusted????
Yes, I’d trust Firebug
Web Inspector in Chrome is showing images downloaded from images.angelpub.com are slow too.
Out of curiosity… Why are you loading these images using https?
Setting up connection appears to be part of the slowness – is the other end of images.angelpub.com a VPS, if so what size/power?