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title: "Check Your Site’s Loading Time"
date: 2009-03-25
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# Check Your Site’s Loading Time

I noticed lately that my site has been taking a long time to load. You can check your loading time at [Pingdom Tools.](http://tools.pingdom.com/) It took about 12.5 seconds to load the site! Holy smokes, I can't have that.

I resized all my sidebar graphics and added a "Read more" tag before any pictures in posts.