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<p>For Immediate Release</p>
<p>Don't Lose Another Visitor to Your Site Because of Slow Load Times</p>
<p>NetMechanic's New FREE Service "Load Time Check" Helps Web Pages Load Fast</p>
<p>Huntsville, AL -- NetMechanic (<a href="http://www.netmechanic.com" title="www.netmechanic.com">www.netmechanic.com</a>), a leading web site<br />
maintenance service, has just announced the launch of a new FREE service<br />
that will prevent web sites from losing visitors due to slow loading web<br />
pages. NetMechanic Load Time Check will search the pages of a web site to<br />
find html, images, multimedia plug-ins, and other objects with extremely<br />
long load times and alert the webmaster with a full report including advice<br />
on how to remedy problem areas. Unlike other fee based services,<br />
NetMechanic Load Time Check also offers free advice on how to improve the<br />
rendering time, that is, the time it takes for the browser to display the<br />
finished web page.</p>
<p>"This is an exceptional service that were offering at no charge," said Tom<br />
Dahm, Manager of NetMechanic. "Thousands of dollars are spent on<br />
cutting-edge graphic design, multimedia plug-ins and other creative design<br />
techniques. It is all a complete waste of money if visitors have to wait<br />
more than several seconds for pages to load, because they won't. They'll<br />
move on to your competitor's site."</p>
<p>The NetMechanic "robot" is sent out to fetch the web page, look at the size<br />
of the page, and then fetch all objects within the page. The robot will<br />
then go through all of the code and look for html problems that may cause<br />
delays when the page is drawn by the browser. This process can be done on a<br />
single page or an entire site. Once the check is complete, a full report is<br />
sent via email in a matter of minutes, with a summary on how every page in<br />
the site performed. Users can then click on a specific page to find a<br />
detailed report of how long it took for the page to load at different<br />
Internet connections. It will also display the size of every object on the<br />
page, pointing out objects that are too big and offering recommendations on<br />
how to make them smaller.</p>
<p>"NetMechanic Load Time Check is an expert system that counsels users on how<br />
to improve the web page download speed," said Dahm. "Rendering time is<br />
something that web masters commonly overlook when considering their sites<br />
download time."</p>
<p>NetMechanic Load Time Check advises users on very simple and smart<br />
techniques that will make a dramatic impact on the time it takes for the<br />
browser to draw the page. For example, putting a height and width attribute<br />
with all of the image tags will decrease download time. If the browser<br />
knows how big the image is going to be, it will save space in the page for<br />
that image even before the whole image is downloaded. Load Time Check is<br />
the only tool that spots missing height and width tags in images and<br />
tables. Other similar services do not check tables.</p>
<p>More about NetMechanic</p>
<p>NetMechanic (<a href="http://www.netmechanic.com" title="http://www.netmechanic.com">http://www.netmechanic.com</a>) is a web site maintenance service<br />
providing low cost site testing and monitoring. NetMechanic has tested over<br />
5,000,000 Web pages, and currently tests over 600,000 pages a month.</p>
<p>NetMechanic's online services are targeted toward webmasters who outsource<br />
their site hosting to an Internet Service Provider or Internet Presence<br />
Provider. Since these users do not have control of the computer hosting<br />
their site, existing desktop or server-based maintenance applications<br />
cannot adequately address their needs. NetMechanic works by monitoring and<br />
testing sites from remote web servers operated by their own service,<br />
allowing easy setup with no software downloads.</p>
<p>NetMechanic provides link testing, HTML validation, graphics optimization,<br />
and server monitoring services including: Load Time Check, Server Check,<br />
Link Check, HTML Check, and GIFBot. These services are free and will test<br />
sites of up to 200 pages. NetMechanic also offers a subscription service,<br />
Server Check Pro, that monitors web servers 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.</p>
<p>NetMechanic is a member of the recently formed Web Host Guild<br />
(<a href="http://www.whg.org" title="www.whg.org">www.whg.org</a>), an organization developed to set standards for the web host<br />
industry and protect consumers from shoddy business practices. Founding<br />
members of the Web Host Guild include: Concentric Network, Hiway<br />
Technologies, NetMechanic, Sage Network, Sumo, Inc., Web2010, and Worldwide<br />
Internet.</p>
<p>NetMechanic was developed by Monte Sano Software, LLC, an Internet software<br />
development firm based in Huntsville, Alabama. For more information contact<br />
Tom Dahm at 256/461-9857, email <a href="mailto:pr@montesano.com">pr@montesano.com</a>, or visit the company's<br />
Web site at <a href="http://www.montesano.com/press/" title="http://www.montesano.com/press/">http://www.montesano.com/press/</a>.<br />
Editorial Contact:<br />
Kristi Kosloske or Jennifer Stonebreaker<br />
847/253-6600 or <a href="mailto:kristi@prunlimited.com">kristi@prunlimited.com</a></p>
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