That's 1,887 ms to render anything and almost a full second of JavaScript execution time.
Waterfall graphs show a similar story: they pushed everything past the document load event so the monitoring tools are a bit off:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120414_9W_3Z15P/ shows an acceptable 1.4 second start of render, which isn't great but acceptable, but looking at the actual video shows that's merely how long it took to render a tiny part of the page - displaying the content which the user actually wanted about took over 8 seconds!
http://www.showslow.com/details/92778/http://twitter.com/#!/...
That's 1,887 ms to render anything and almost a full second of JavaScript execution time.
Waterfall graphs show a similar story: they pushed everything past the document load event so the monitoring tools are a bit off:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120414_9W_3Z15P/ shows an acceptable 1.4 second start of render, which isn't great but acceptable, but looking at the actual video shows that's merely how long it took to render a tiny part of the page - displaying the content which the user actually wanted about took over 8 seconds!
http://www.webpagetest.org/video/view.php?id=120414_2a4075f2...