Why so some web pages take a long time to load?
• the content of the page. It will take longer to download pages if they contain large graphics files or photographs, sound files or movie files. • the speed of your Internet connection (network at school or modem at home) • whether you have accessed the page lately and it is sitting in your cache (your computer will find this page from the cache which is held on your computer). If information is always being updated on that page you will need to refresh/reload the page to go to the Internet for the latest version. • whether you have accessed the page lately and it is sitting on the web server for your site. Your request for the page will go to this computer rather than to the Internet which speeds up the download • the Internet link provided by your Internet Service Provider (if accessing at home) • the amount of Internet ‘traffic’ at the time (at school this will also be the number of staff and students accessing the computers at that. • the size of the page you are loading. Thus, th
