Neil Harris wrote:
Now, if a connection was being limited by TCP startup
alone, this
means that data would be delivered somewhere between four and ten
times faster, and in particular that page-rendering would be able to
start four to ten times as quickly. In practice, this is not the sole
factor involved, so observed gains will not be as great as this, but
they will certainly be very noticeable by users.
I still don't see how that's the case. I just timed some page views on
en:, de:, and fr:, and all took over 2000 milliseconds from request to
the end of page-load. The en: Main Page seems to take around 4000-5000
milliseconds. How is an 80-ms latency difference in TCP startup due to
geographical server location going to be noticeable on these scales?
-Mark