Hi,

I'm trying to optimize my page load times, and I'm using Pingdom to test the site response times. However, I'm not exactly sure what the various components of the "time bar" mean.

Example link: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/?url=http://neosmart.net/forums//&id=2230361

According to them, the portion of the bar that is yellow is the time between "start" and "connect" and the portion of the bar that is green is the time between "connect" and "first byte" with the blue section being the actual transfer time (time between "first byte" and "last byte").

If I'm trying to the first two (which take very long in my case), what's the recommended course of action?

Thanks.