Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
Anthere reports that there is a general impression among the French that en.wikipedia.org loads faster than fr.wikipedia.org. Is this possible?
Can we run some tests?
Each time I start my computer and I open my browser I load 10 pages at the same time: my user page on fr, my watch list on fr, two related pages from fr, 3 normal pages from fr and a page from en: [[List of astronomical topics]]. Since several weeks, systematically, the pag efrom en load substantially faster than the fr ones (the second page is my user page on fr, then all the remaining one more or less at the same time).
It can be that this speed difference is due to the simultaneous loading of 3 "heavy" pages on fr while the only from en is not so demanding. Otherwise, I don't feel a great subjective difference of loading time between fr and en (but I have the impression that pages from en: loads a little bit faster, while the ones from meta load a little bit slower).
-- Looxix