User Side Factors
There
are a lot of user side factors that can affect the performance of a website and
the computer system. The user side factor that can affect the performance of
the website can be the download speed and also for the user side factor that
can affect the computer systems is the browser, cache memory and the processor
speed.
Download
Speed
The download speed of website can be down to what the
computer system is downloading, such as media of the internet or it can be web
page. The speed of downloads can be affected by many thing such as
·
Viruses
·
The size of the
processor
·
The size of the file
that is being downloading
·
How many webpages are
being open
·
The internet
connection that is being used
All of these can play part in how fast the download speed
will be.
For example if the size of the file that is being
downloaded is 5 GB, the download speed will be very slow because of the size of
the file, which will slow down websites from opening.
PC
Performance Factors
More
factors that can affect the performance of a website can be browsers, cache
memory and the processor speed. As there are many different browsers that are
used to display web pages, the most common are Google Chrome, Internet
Explorer, Apple Safari and Mozilla Fire Fox. The performance of a website can
depend on what browser is being used because there is a something called
browser speed so one browser is faster than another. For example Google chrome
is faster than Mozilla Fire Fox because Google Chrome has better resources than
Mozilla Fire Fox, so Mozilla Fire Fox will have to spend time trying to use
different resources. Cache memory is another factor when speaking of the
performance of a Pc or a website, because the cache memory stores the data of
different website that the pc has visited. So that when that webpage is visited
again the user data that was saved will automatically be there ready to use,
the more cache memory the pc has the data will be saved. But once the cache
memory is full the performance of the pc will become slower, so to stop this
from happening the cache memory should be clear of all data that is not needed
on the user pc. The speed of the processor plays a big factor in the
performance of a pc and website, because the processor deals with how fast the
information is processed. So to keep the speed of the pc fast it is better to
have a faster processor, this will make opening webpages on browsers faster.
Server Side Factors
The
server side factors are more likely to affect the website performance than the
user side factors, because the way how the website is hosted and maintained.
Will affect the performance of the website, the main server side factors are
web server capacity and file types.
Web
Server Capacity
Web server capacity involves
of three things which are available bandwidth, executions to be performed
before page load and number of hits. Available bandwidth is how much data that
can be downloaded from a website; bandwidth is a very important factor in the
performance of a website. So with a bigger bandwidth the more data you would be
able to download from a website. An execution to be performed before page
loaded is more to do with the code of the website. If a website is opened the
code that was used to make the web site will be performed, if there is more
coding it will take longer to load the website. So if the website coding is
short and simple, the request of the website will be performed faster. If many
people are on a website all at once, the more the website will have to put up
with the demand. This can result in the website becoming slower, which can end
up making the website crash. The term that is used for the amount of people
visiting a web site is called number of hits.
File
Types
There
are also different file types that are used, that can affect the performance of
a website. The different file types are Bitmap, Vector, Jpg, Gif, Wav, Mp3, Avi
and Swf; some of these file types are used for images, music and videos. The file
formats which are used for images are Bitmap, vector, Jpg and Gif. These are
all used in the making of a website to add images to the web page, depending on
the browser it may have lower support and compatibility with some of the file
formats for images such as vectors. So for some browser other image file formats
will have to be used in order for images to appear on the webpage on a browser.
For sound the main file formats that is used are Wav and Mp3, some browser are
not about to support some sound file formats. So when making a website it is
good to use these two file format when input sound into a webpage because they
are support by most of the browsers. For videos the most used video file format
that is used is Avi because it is supported by all browsers, so people viewing
the website would be able to view the video. A file format that allow for
multimedia is Swf, Swf was created by Adobe Flash. It is a multi-functional
type of file format so this means that it is about to save images, videos,
sound and animation; this file format allows the website designer to put
animation on to the website that they are creating.