qustion about browsers behavior loading images

Hello all,

i recently notice (with fire bug) that sometimes
images .gif (even small ones like 149 B ) takes 4.93sec to load
and larger ones 4 K takes few ms,

can someone explain me this behavior?
i dont have a tool to test this in IE. any recommendation about such a tool?

for general knowledge what's the normal time for a home page of a web site to load? user experience wize

thanks

re: qustion about browsers behavior loading images

It depends on where the images come from. Some of those images may already be in your browser cache while others come from a slow server somewhere.

IE has the IE Toolbar, which is nothing compared to Firebug and why would you want to use it?

re: qustion about browsers behavior loading images

hello and thanks for the reply.

the test i did is after i clean all the cache and cookies in FF.

i think that the time that firebug says he loaded the image is not accurate.

in total i can see the page load in 4 sec,
and the images have more then that :(

strange

re: qustion about browsers behavior loading images

I doubt it's anything to do with FF. More likely a slow server.