> > "A few seconds" can easily be the difference between a customer > > spending enough time on my site to find something they want to buy, > > and not. When I click on a search results link, I'll hit stop and try > > another link if the page takes a few seconds too long to load. > > That might be true for YOU but not necessarily for everyone else.
If it's true for me, it's almost definitely true for others, and that's a problem. It doesn't need to be true for "everyone else" to be a problem. > > It just seems silly to work on speeding up my server's execution time, > > and even make sacrifices for greater speed, until I can get a page to > > serve in 1 second instead of 4, and then realize I'm sometimes waiting > > as long as 10 seconds before my code is even executed. > > To really say "oh its a server issue" you need to test from different > places through different Internet access methods. Dont assume it is slow > just because it is from YOUR computer. I'm not necessarily saying it's a server problem. I'm trying to figure out if it's a fixable problem. - Grant -- [email protected] mailing list
