Comparing Server Speeds with .Mac

I know nothing about server speeds yet -- but I know that my iWeb site ( www.danderrico.com ) is slow -- much slower than my older .Mac site ( http://homepage.mac.com/dansphotos/Menu4.html ).
What is the "speed" of .Mac's server ? How can I find out the speed offered by other web hosts to compare ? At what point will the speed be appreciably different from .Mac to make a switch to another server worth it?
Thanks !

That's just the thing, Apple doesn't sell .Mac on speed or even capacity really, they sell it on features. While they do allow you to see how much bandwidth you've currently used, there isn't a published "speed" baseline to gauge by.
Whatever the speed of .Mac is, I'd say it's just barely baseline especially when you consider the kinds of pages (with PNG images) that iWeb creates. That's also why I assume most other hosts that DO have specific numbers listed would be above this and, unless you have a site that will receive tens of thousands of hits a day, you probably won't see a difference between one given host and another.

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