Poll: AnandTech front page speed

[Bovinicus]

It takes somewhere almost exactly 4 seconds for me to load the page using the mississippi counting method. I know it's not scientific, but the margin of error should be low enough for such a small span of time.

I live in Maryland (Middle east coast). I have Comcast cable. The top of the page loads in about 1 second, then the lower portion of the page takes about an additional 3 seconds to load.

 

[Confused]

About 12 seconds from the UK, on a 160kbps cable line

 

[Bonesdad]

Faster than it was 2 days ago, but still slower than it was 2 weeks ago. West US, Boise, ID. Cableone Cable internet.

 

[LordOfAll]

about 3 seconds. comcast cable, near detroit, MI. had some issues last night with the ads loading but not the page. seems fine now.

 

[ViRGE]

I'm seeing about 6 seconds here in Salem, Oregon on Comcast. I'm using Safari however(I'm on a Mac, so shoot me), so that might throw off your results.

 

[mechBgon]

Jason, it takes about 45 seconds to load via 49.2k dialup from Washington State.

Sometimes I experience the "mystery hang" on the front page too, where the system just sits there and thinks, and I have a hypothesis that this might be the result of using Spybot Search & Destroy. I loaded its Hosts file, which remaps "bad" servers to 127.0.0.1. For example, if I go to Webshots Community looking for a photo, I get repeated error messages to the effect that "127.0.0.1 isn't replying to that" and lots of non-displayed advertising banners, evidently because these are among the "bad" servers that track users or attempt to feed the system a spyware-installer popup.

So you might look for a pattern there. Of those who are experiencing the "mystery hang" on the front page at times, how many have Spybot S&D installed?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Jason, it takes about 45 seconds to load via 49.2k dialup from Washington State.

Sometimes I experience the "mystery hang" on the front page too, where the system just sits there and thinks, and I have a hypothesis that this might be the result of using Spybot Search & Destroy. I loaded its Hosts file, which remaps "bad" servers to 127.0.0.1. For example, if I go to Webshots Community looking for a photo, I get repeated error messages to the effect that "127.0.0.1 isn't replying to that" and lots of non-displayed advertising banners, evidently because these are among the "bad" servers that track users or attempt to feed the system a spyware-installer popup.

So you might look for a pattern there. Of those who are experiencing the "mystery hang" on the front page at times, how many have Spybot S&D installed?

No Spybot here.

 

[BoomAM]

About 18 seconds.
On a 512/256 Tiscali ADSL line.
NW, Crewe, UK.

Might i suggest a cut down of Quicktime applets on AT. Cos Opera browsers sometimes have problems with them, and i hate having to change to IE just to view certain parts of AT (such as benchmark graphs).

Thanks.

 

[mechBgon]

So much for that hypothesis, then.

I'm using IE6SP1 with all subsequent critical patches, and Sun Java 2, FWIW.

 

[Sid59]

10 seconds until it stopped loading everything.

Firebird 0.7
1200kbps SBC DSL
West Coast, Bay Area

 

[KristopherKubicki]

I tweaked the code a little bit. Please let me know if this helps....

Kristopher

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

cut load times in nearly in half for me...9 seconds to 4-5.

*edit*

Insight 3000\128 from the midwest using Opera.

Will check with IE in a sec.

IE ...

Try 1: 45 seconds on a fresh cache...
Try 2: 14 seconds on a fresh cache...
Try 3: 34 esconds on a fresh cache.

Header loaded instantly, then it took longer to actually load the rest

 

[BoomAM]

Now 16 seconds for me. 2 seconds faster than before.

 

[Sid59]

IE6 took 20 seconds ..

Firebird .7 was way less prolly cause it was cached mostly .. about 3 seconds

 

[Wolfsraider]

comcast cable
burien washington

load times are always 10+ seconds and at times over 20 seconds

cable speed 1781 kbps as reported by dsl reports here

mike

now 12 seconds

 

[Twofootputt]

Main page took 18 seconds. Location Buffalo, NY. Cable connection.
Headers loaded immediately, then a pause for body of page.

 

[arcenite]

Opera, 5 seconds.
IE Freezes

South Jersey, Comcast Cable

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: Twofootputt
Main page took 18 seconds. Location Buffalo, NY. Cable connection.
Headers loaded immediately, then a pause for body of page.

Thats what happens on mine.
The headers loaded first, then a pause for the main page, then wait for the pictures to load.

 

[retrospooty]

Originally posted by: Amused
Just tried it and it appears the ZipZoomFly problem is back. But, it happens occationally. Not every time I try to load it.

Exactly what I see. Its not everytime, maybe 50% of the time

It can be anywhere from 10 seconds, to over 1 minute. I just did it 30 seconds ago and it took me 1 minute 22 seconds to load from Silicon Valley CA. As usual my IE reported it was "not responding" then it suddenly let up.

Clearly there is an issue here. Its been this wasy for weeks.

 

[retrospooty]

Originally posted by: aRCeNiTe
Opera, 5 seconds.
IE Freezes

South Jersey, Comcast Cable

For me Opera <4 seconds . IE hangs, (If I wait over 1 minute it loads)

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

7 seconds, Earthlink DSL, Colorado. It was functional within 5 seconds, but fully loaded by 7 seconds.

 

[NYHoustonman]

It's been locking up temporarily for 5-10 seconds when I go to the main page for a week or so now.

 

[olds]

11 seconds on Comcast cable

 

[microAmp]

Central Texas; 3-5 seconds; Time Warner Cable 350 kB/s; IE (latest)

 

[ndee]

14s, 2mbit downstream from Switzerland. But I could "work" with the page after about 7 seconds, 14 seconds is til it's fully 100% loaded.