"Oldak Quill" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 2 August 2010 12:13, Oldak Quill <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 28 July 2010 20:13, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Seems to me playing the role of the average dumb user, that >>> en.wikipedia.org is one of the rather slow websites of the many websites >>> I browse. >>> >>> No matter what browser, it takes more seconds from the time I click on a >>> link to the time when the first bytes of the HTTP response start flowing >>> back to me. >>> >>> Seems facebook is more zippy. >>> >>> Maybe Mediawiki is not "optimized". >> >> >> For what it's worth, Alexa.com lists the average load time of the >> websites they catalogue. I'm not sure what the metrics they use are, >> and I would guess they hit the squid cache and are in the United >> States. >> >> Alexa.com list the following average load times as of now: >> >> wikipedia.org: Fast (1.016 Seconds), 74% of sites are slower. >> facebook.com: Average (1.663 Seconds), 50% of sites are slower. > > > An addendum to the above message: > > According to the Alexa.com help page "Average Load Times: Speed > Statistics" (http://www.alexa.com/help/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1042): > "The Average Load Time ... [is] based on load times experienced by > Alexa users, and measured by the Alexa Toolbar, during their regular > web browsing." > > So although US browsers might be overrepresented in this sample (I'm > just guessing, I have no figures to support this statement), the Alexa > sample should include many non-US browsers, assuming that the figure > reported by Alexa.com is reflective of its userbase. > And the average Alexa toolbar user is logged in to facebook and using it to see what their friends were up to last night, with masses of personalised content; while the average Alexa toolbar user is a reader seeing the same page as everyone else. We definitely have the theoretical advantage.
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