Which loads faster? Pit websites against each other.

Re:Which loads faster? Pit websites against each other. by aston on Thursday July 08, 2010 @11:20PM (#1499636)

Dunno if this holds up for others, but Bing is substantially faster than Google's homepage to load, even with all of the crazy graphics... Impressive.

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Re:Which loads faster? Pit websites against each other. by parallax7d on Thursday July 08, 2010 @11:28PM (#1499655)

Due to the distribution of servers, and the way data is routed about the internet, i would imagine it would be different for everyone.

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Re:Which loads faster? Pit websites against each other. by onecreativenerd on Friday July 09, 2010 @02:10PM (#1501597)

I am only measuring the "onDOMContentLoaded" or jQuery's cross-browser equivalent. It's certainly possible for pages to load objects after that using javascript, which "cheats" a little for purposes of this comparison.

What really matters in practice is "time to first interaction" which is when the user thinks your site is useful. Next up on my feature list is having a button to indicate which pages seemed to load faster to you. The idea is you can send a link out to your friends and get their impressions, which is more valuable than the numbers you can get with an automated tool. :)

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Re:Which loads faster? Pit websites against each other. by SkyMarshal on Friday July 09, 2010 @03:53AM (#1500094)

Fwiw, Google loaded 20% faster for me.

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Re:Which loads faster? Pit websites against each other. by what on Friday July 09, 2010 @12:10AM (#1499750)

Bing's homepage consistently loads faster for me too. But Google's search results tend to load faster.

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