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Lander slowed down by weird requests? (4)

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Hi,

a quick question. I tested my landers against 24x7 website speed tester, to check speed from SG.

Result:



Why is the tester trying to download non-linked stuff, like blank.html and favicon.ico? Even twice?

The same happens with every lander.

That's slowing down my lander from a nice 0.6s to an awful 1.8s

Ideas?

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1. favicon - default browser behavior is to request a favicon. so its best that you add one instead of 404'ing it
2. blank.html seems out of place. .. are you sure there's nothing on your page linking to blank.html that you might have forgotten about?

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Here's a blank favicon that I use just to decrease page load times (so browser don't keep looking for it):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/12ug51htw1...vicon.ico?dl=0

I don't remember where I downloaded it from - would love to credit the source otherwise.

As for the blank.html - have you done a search for that on your lander?



Amy

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Thank you, you always so kind! I also added this line to the LP because the speed-tester still wasn't convinced to go for it:

I am definitely sure, nothing referring to blank.html in my lander. However, I fixed the behavior by adding this line:

I believe that the browser was also searching for that page by default, maybe simulating the actions of search spiders. I don't know whether the website that I use to speed-test my landers is mimicking the browser correctly (https://www.site24x7.com/web-page-analyzer.html), however I added the line: it's always good to keep the search engine spiders away from our landers.

Thank you all!

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