On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:48 AM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
So if you can't beat 'em join 'em. Somehow use Google's caches instead of your own. Something, anything, for a little more speed.
No we won't be doing that... Ever.
It's because they are loading a pure HTML representation of the page, where as we load lots more such as JS to make the interface usable, and they also have more (and possibly faster) equipment to handle requests, And I would also be guessing here but I would assume they have better backbone connections as well.