On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:13 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org 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".
Is this logged in or not? If you're not logged in, you should be hitting Squid cache most of the time, and we should be about as fast as anyone with similar RTT. But you might easily be far away from the nearest Wikipedia server than the nearest Facebook server. And if you're logged in, I'm betting we're much less optimized -- certainly if you have unusual parser preferences (which I'm sure you do), so you miss the parser cache regularly.