If you have a client that you work with in China, you could setup a proxy. But generally Y-Slow! and Firebug are your pals. If you have large static loads, definitely use Amazon CloudFront, not plain S3.
Also check out Google Episodes and Analytics to see what your users timing is actually like. On Sep 3, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Scott Olmsted <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a client with an educational site that has about twenty math > and vocabulary games written in Flash. The Flash code reads past > scores from the site (hosted at RailsPlayground) and then writes new > scores at times as the user plays the games. It may be writing a file > as large as 100K or more, with lots of score information for all the > games. > > The client would like to sell this into Asian markets, but three > potential customers in China have reported the site is too slow. > > First: since I can't get any more detail about exactly what is meant > by "too slow", is there any easy way to access the site as if I were > in Asia, realizing of course that there will be extra latency for the > extra trip across the Pacific? > > If the unacceptable performance is due to high-latency communication > with the Rails site and not due to the initial loading of the Flash > (which could be helped by hosting it on Amazon's S3 servers in Asia), > what, if anything, can be done about that? > > Thanks, > > Scott > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
