Re:Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1
by onion2k on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:18AM
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Those 104ms of latency don't make a dent.
Aren't there several requests to complete though? Assuming 5 synchronous requests before the first byte of your web page is rendered (a DNS lookup, a TLS connection to establish (which requires 2 requests), then a preflight request, and finally the actual request) that's a full half a second just on the flight time regardless of all the other costs. That's an extra 10% on top of the 5s it takes for Reddit to load. Subsequent requests would be faster but generally it's the first page load people really notice.
Re:Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1
by onion2k on Friday June 30, 2023 @04:51AM
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That depends on where the name server is. If a website is only hosted on us-east-1 it's common to see the canonical name server being in the US as well.
Aren't there several requests to complete though? Assuming 5 synchronous requests before the first byte of your web page is rendered (a DNS lookup, a TLS connection to establish (which requires 2 requests), then a preflight request, and finally the actual request) that's a full half a second just on the flight time regardless of all the other costs. That's an extra 10% on top of the 5s it takes for Reddit to load. Subsequent requests would be faster but generally it's the first page load people really notice.