As the speed of the average Internet connection increases, web designers are taking advantage of the higher speed to beautify their pages, which add kilobytes to their web pages. As much as we love those shiny colorful images and bandwidth intensive video clips, some people are still struggling with lower speed connections.

A great free tool for checking how web pages load over slow connections is Sloppy. It is Java-based and extra easy to load if you have Java on your machine already. It is easy to use as well. Just type in a URL address and specify the speed that you want the connection to run at. Then sit back and party with those media rich, Web 2.0 pages of yours like it is 1999.

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