I created a ticked with Apache Infra. Searching Jira reveals that there has been an experimental CDN in China for some time now. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-20203 Foivos, thanks for the info. I mention the issue in the ticket too. Let's see what they say about CDN support for China and Australia.
Cheers, Aaron On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 9:17 AM Foivos Diakogiannis < phoevos.diakogian...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > the loading speed from Australia (Perth at least) is also bad. I avoid > visiting the site for documentation for this reason. > > Thank you all for this amazing tool that you've built and maintain. > > Kind regards, > Foivos > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 12:05 AM Aaron Markham <aaron.s.mark...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi MXNet community! > > > > I recently looked through stats for Q1 and compared them to previous > > quarters. I also checked out some of the insights. Here's what I found: > > > > MXNet traffic was relatively flat with a 0.24% gain in users QoQ, but a > > slight decline of users of -2.36% month over month. However, there was a > > noticeable decline in traffic from Asian language users, in particular > > Chinese (-17%), Japanese (-7%), Korean (-18%), and Taiwanese (-19%), > > meanwhile English was up around 10%. > > > > Google’s insights mention that the website loads much slower in China > than > > everywhere else with an average of 19 seconds. This will frustrate many > > customers and it would be worth investigating CDN options for the > website. > > This is all the more important because *China is the number one country > > using the MXNet website*. > > > > So I have two suggestions: > > > > 1. Localize the site for Chinese customers > > 2. Get some CDN or better mirror for Chinese customers so page load time > > isn't so horrible > > > > For (1), I was involved a long while back on a loc project for MXNet, but > > that sputtered out for reasons not worth getting into, but suffice to > say, > > it can be a bit complicated. Scoping out what to translate is key. My > > suggestion is to translate just the main site, the Python guides, html > > versions of notebooks, but not the API reference, and not any other > > language APIs. > > > > For (2), IDK. Ask Apache Infra about it? AWS is bound to have an option > > here too. > > > > Cheers, > > Aaron > > >
