| Or just encrypt everything and bounce it through proxies or route anonymizers
Yep, that'll speed things up
Its not about speeding it up, its about finding a fair test, this would create a worst case delivery scenario which you know someone hasn't messed with.
If you can optimise your applications under those conditions you know its going to be gravy for those without lots of hops. The problem is that developers have very fast computers AND are usually a very short hop count from their deployment servers. They make really bad testers.
Re:Why is the web so slow?
by mikkelewis on Monday December 02, 2013 @01:09AM
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Regarding [2]...
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s74/sh/f033a734-455b-427a-90a...
SF: Is there something that I'm missing that isn't shitty comcast? (And I'm not eligible for Webpass, though I can dream)
Comcast Business Class is pretty solid in SF (as opposed to their normal service, which I've also had and is terrible).
Re:Why is the web so slow?
by freeasinfree on Monday December 02, 2013 @01:27AM
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MonkeyBrains
CDNs appear to be messing with performance in ways that aren't really transparent to users or content providers.[1]
We need better tools than speedtest sites. We need a way to see an ISP's provision of popular sites over time.[2]
Or just encrypt everything and bounce it through proxies or route anonymizers, make that standard. Either way.
[1] http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/how-to-stop-youtube-sucking-wi... ; http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/13kmvd/have_time...
[2] http://www.youtube.com/my_speed may be an example worth following for Netflix, Vimeo.