On 28 July 2010 20:13, 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".
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.