Very true. I'm in a different part of the country (I'm in Boston, they're in Philadelphia) and tried running the benchmarks myself about a week ago. Unfortunately, I didn't save the results, but if you take my word for it, I remember getting similar results with only slightly different numbers. Your best bet, of course, is to run the benchmarks yourself: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/forgeperf

Some other people ran the benchmarks from different places in Europe and got similar results with "nothing significantly different" from those published: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22900649

I'll try it out later today. Would be interesting to see actually because, completely anecdotally, GitLab seems faster than sr.ht in my daily usage.

Don't make the same mistake that I did! Save your results and share them with the class. :)

Here: https://report-delta.now.sh

SourceHut is still the winner of most, but GitHub is a lot faster than in the report on forgeperf.org.

I think the perceived speediness of GitHub for me can be mostly attributed to the fact they don't trigger a full page reload for every navigation. Whereas SourceHut is rendered completely server-side AFAIK.

(I meant GitHub in my previous comment, fyi.)

No, they do it in a fair way, I believe if you read the page it will tell you how they fairly measure performance between the forges.

Edit: see "Expand for details on methodology" right at the top of the page.

Yes, that explains their methodology but not the location of the hardware. If I go and run a Lighthouse audit on localhost vs. a server in Philadelphia there's going to be an inherent difference.

I remember reading that they also ran the benchmark in Germany and got similar results when first reading about this here on hn.

Anyway, it suffice to use gitlab, github, bitbucket and sourcehub for a few seconds to notice the slowness of the three first sites compared to the last one.

We didn't really need the numbers to be convinced but I hope they will produce some pressure to be faster.

Sorry, I seemed to remember they did something to make it fair, I don't recall the location. I use sr.ht and I've used the others and, for me, it feels like 'turbo mode' compared to them. Especially git pushing: it's faster than pushing to my dokku server that only I use!