My website loads lightning fast on my home computer, but that’s probably. Even if I try to use my cell phone, the site still loads exceptionally fast because I have anywhere from four to five bars of 4G LTE speed.
Unfortunately, when I check the load time for my site it’s not the 1 or 2 seconds that it takes for the page to load for me, but significantly higher values like 5 or 7 or 10 seconds. Obviously, probably very few people are browsing my site with an ultra-high-speed broadband connection.
However, there is a solution to this problem that is completely free and much easier to use. If you already have Google Chrome installed on your computer, you already have everything you need to simulate a slower network connection.
Simulate Slow Connection using Chrome
- Go ahead and install Chrome if you don’t already have it installed on your system. Once you do, open a new tab and then press CTRL + SHIFT + I to open the developer tools window or click on the hamburger icon, then More Tools, and then Developer Tools.
- This will bring up the Developer Tools window, which will probably be docked on the right side of the screen. I prefer it docked at the bottom of the screen since you can see more data. To do this, click on the three vertical dots and then click on the middle dock position.
- Now go ahead and click on the Network tab. On the right, you should see a label called No Throttling.
- If you click on that, you’ll get a dropdown list of pre-configured speeds that you can use to simulate a slow connection.
- The choices range from Offline to WiFi and the numbers are shown as Latency, Download, Upload. The slowest is GPRS followed by Regular 2G, then Good 2G, then Regular 3G, Good 3G, Regular 4G, DSL, and then WiFi. Pick one of the options and then reload the page you are on or type in another URL in the address bar.
- If you want to use your own specific values, you can click the Add button under Custom. Click on the Add Custom Profile button to add a new profile.
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