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There are many factors that can affect the sales of your website, one of them is not so important, but we should not neglect it, which is the location of your host. Your shopping cart host usually is seted in one area in one country, but the customers come from the whole world, the difference of the visiting speed definitely exist.

When the customer visit your shopping cart, it is just like driving to your company. The customer near your company will arrive quickly, for his route is short; while the customer who is far from your company will come by plane,then arrive at your company by car from the road, obviously, it’s slowly. The speed visiting the web is just like the example given a moment ago.

You can ping your shopping cart at home, to check how many ms does it need. Generally speaking, it can be accepted if it is less than 100ms. It will be slowly if it is more than 400ms. The buyer’s mood for buying will be hitted if the speed is still unstable, if so, the order lose. How to test the speed of your shopping cart? You can simulate the test of customer visiting by the following website:

http://internetsupervision.com/scripts/urlcheck/check.aspx

Entering the address of your shopping cart, this website will simulate visiting in many countries all over the world, you will know the speed of your host directly. You need to analyse which countries can not be visited, what problems exsit, which country’s customers is in slow speed, according to your testing result, if there is a need to set a mirrored server to improve the visiting speed.

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