Poll: AnandTech front page speed

[Dug]

From home in WA it only takes a few seconds on Comcast Cable

From work it takes well over 30 seconds on a T1. But this isn't consistant.
Sometimes the front page will load fine, its the articles that will take 30sec to a minute to load for each page.

 

[sciencewhiz]

2-4 seconds consistantly with mozilla 1.5 in linux with the latest linux flash installed.

Rochester, NY, Dual OC3 before most students are back

 

[odog]

C:\Documents and Settings\odog>tracert anandtech.com

Tracing route to anandtech.com [168.143.107.162]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 10.12.192.1
3 7 ms 34 ms 5 ms wtfd-rtr1-swtch1.myeastern.com [66.212.192.33]
4 8 ms 14 ms 10 ms 12.119.84.229
5 12 ms 10 ms 14 ms gbr5-p51.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.123.202.170]
6 14 ms 30 ms 10 ms tbr2-p013301.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.122.11.25]
7 9 ms 9 ms 11 ms ggr1-p370.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.123.1.125]
8 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms p4-0.att.nwrknj01.us.bb.verio.net [192.205.32.242]
9 13 ms 18 ms 25 ms p16-0-1-1.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.2.217]
10 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms p64-0-0-0.r21.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.7.33]
11 33 ms 37 ms 20 ms p16-1-0-1.r21.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.5.99]
12 19 ms 22 ms 35 ms p16-4-0-0.r02.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.2.63]
13 20 ms 17 ms 17 ms ge-1-1.a00.asbnva01.us.ra.verio.net [129.250.26.97]
14 20 ms 18 ms 20 ms ge49.r1.vadc1.eicomm.net [168.143.105.78]
15 18 ms 23 ms 20 ms 168.143.107.162

in connecticut on cable.... in IE6sp1 background took less then a second to load, but the rest of the page and ads took 15+ seconds.

mozilla took less then 5 seconds

 

[Beller0ph1]

Wisconsin, SBC Yahoo DSL, Mozilla Firebird with Adblock. 1-5 seconds.

 

[Netopia]

The main page is now FLYING up again.... as it used to.

Joe
who has set AnandTech back as his Home Page again.

 

[Cerb]

Just under 4 seconds in Firebird. Side bar loads, main content loads, the right ads and stuff loads. I think for me it is just that it gets part of the table(s?) and sits there waiting for ad images and such before it starts working on the rest of it.
In IE it takes almost on 3 seconds, but scrolls very slowly compared to Firebird.

 

[Ant001]

4 secs almost exactly (timed with a stopwatch) with a cleared cache on Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 from upstate NY on Time Warner Cable (Road Runner)

 

[Intelman07]

East Coast Ohio Using Roadrunner cable. Sidebars load fast, main body takes a few extra seconds to load for a total of around 8 seconds load time.

 

[BigFatCow]

texas, top part loads instantly and the body takes 3-4 seconds.

 

Consistently 10 seconds, no matter the time of day, east coast, optimum online.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Netopia

Getting 100 Mbit soon!

Just where do you work.... or is that your HOME line?

Joe
who is now getting fast load times

Yep, that's at home

Anyways, the site is a little faster now, not quite blazing, but it doesn't seem to stall in any particular place, it just loads from craploads of other sites.

 

[onelin]

MA with comcast cable. 9+ seconds, edging on over 10 if you count locating the site.

What you're going to do with CSS is going to INCREASE render time? or decrease?

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

MUCH better now.

 

[thorin]

Gack....I hardly ever visit the front page anymore because it so slow (I always wait for ppl to post links in the forum, or I get linked from /. when they post your article links).

15 sec 1.5Mbit DSL Ottawa, Ontario (Home)
11 sec T1 (feeding a 100Mbit network) Ottawa, Ontario (Work ... when no one is in the office)

Thorin

 

[MDE]

1.8Mb Comcast Cable (and thru a wireless network) Chicago suburbs using Opera 7 it loads instantaneously.

 

[HalfCrazy]

Loads in about 4 secs for me. I'm using a 512 Kbps DSL right now so I can try out the ISP service. Since the first month is free I said why not. I like the service so much I'm going to upgrade it to 1.5 Mbps in Feb. Just have to wait for the free month to be over first to upgrade it.

At first I though my connection was acting u some. But then again all the other sites I go to loads up near instantaneously. There is one other site that loads slow for me and that is themexp.org. I go there now and then to get wallpapers for my computer.

Does themexp.org loads slow for anyone else here? Just asking of course.

 

[Dennis Travis]

Here in Central Calif. on SBC DSL running 1.2Mbits downstream. Takes around 5 seconds with the cache cleared. Seems 2-3 seconds faster than it was last night.

Here is my Tracert to Anandtech.

Tracing route to anandtech.com [168.143.107.162]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 13 ms 11 ms 13 ms adsl-64-172-131-254.dsl.sktn01.pacbell.net [64.1
72.131.254]
3 13 ms 12 ms 13 ms dist2-vlan60.sktn01.pbi.net [216.102.187.19]
4 13 ms 12 ms 13 ms bb1-g1-0.sktn01.pbi.net [63.200.104.106]
5 15 ms 16 ms 14 ms bb1-p9-2.sntc01.pbi.net [151.164.188.117]
6 15 ms 15 ms 16 ms bb2-p12-0.sntc01.pbi.net [64.161.1.26]
7 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms bb1-p3-0.eqsjca.sbcglobal.net [64.161.1.54]
8 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms sl-st20-sj-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.223.242.81]
9 16 ms 15 ms 16 ms sl-st21-sj-1-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.67]
10 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 144.232.19.22
11 17 ms 17 ms 16 ms xe-0-2-0.r20.snjsca04.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.2
.72]
12 18 ms 17 ms 18 ms p64-0-0-0.r20.plalca01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
2.70]
13 83 ms 79 ms 81 ms p16-0-1-3.r21.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
2.193]
14 78 ms 78 ms 79 ms p16-4-0-0.r02.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
2.63]
15 79 ms 78 ms 79 ms ge-1-1.a00.asbnva01.us.ra.verio.net [129.250.26.
97]
16 79 ms 79 ms 79 ms ge49.r1.vadc1.eicomm.net [168.143.105.78]
17 79 ms 79 ms 80 ms 168.143.107.162

Trace complete.

 

[Chadder007]

4-5 seconds Chatt, TN Comcast.

 

[rb56]

Bresnan Cable
approx 6 sec
Sheridan, WY

 

[seepy83]

i'm on the east coast, in connecticut. page loads the top 'toolbar'(anandtech image w/ cpu, it computing, motherboards, audio, etc links) almost instantly, and then takes about 10-15 seconds to load the rest of the page.

 

[Amused]

Now it loads fast for me. No more freezing on the ZipZoom file.

 

[cbuchach]

18 sec in Milwaukee, WI on dail-up (I am traveling and this is on my laptop).

 

[Crimson]

Well I am counting like 15 banner ads on the front page total.. Maybe if you add another 15-20 it will speed things up even more?

Despite the insane amount of ads, its still only taking me about 4-5 seconds in Wisconsin on cable.

 

[whitelight]

6s with IE6, NYC, Verizon DSL.

 

[fredtam]

1-2 second with Firebird/ cache cleared / Atlanta, GA / DSL