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Who's Fast?August 1, 2002 More and more people are complaining - and cable/DSL companies are reminding them - of how slow dial-up connections can be. But how slow - or how fast - are the world's most trafficked web sites anyway?
Radsoft conducted an informal study over a two-week period of twenty-nine of the world's most trafficked web sites, using in-house software to calibrate full load times to the millisecond. The tables that follow list the averages, sorted both alphabetically and by results.
There are some surprises here, to be sure. Perhaps most surprising is the fact that Radsoft was not at the top of the list, but finished only in third place.
The BBC news site, which has had a reputation of being extremely slow, finished in a comfortable fifth place, ahead of all the other news sites tested. Sun was, as expected, faster than its rival Microsoft, while most of the sites tested finished at an average of less than half a minute.
Security sites Infoworld and especially Symantec's recent acquisition Security Focus Online performed deplorably, with the latter having an average load time of nearly three times the median - almost a minute and a half.
Sorted alphabeticallyaol.com | | 0:24.940 | att.com | | 0:28.290 | comcast.net | | 0:32.680 | digex.com | | 0:56.730 | earthlink.net | | 0:31.420 | foundstone.com | | 0:19.610 | geocities.com | | 0:25.100 | guardian.co.uk | | 0:36.420 | incidents.org | | 0:25.930 | infoworld.com | | 0:49.430 | microsoft.com | | 0:38.170 | msnbc.com | | 0:34.320 | my.yahoo.com | | 0:20.100 | news.bbc.co.uk | | 0:19.440 | news.com | | 0:37.460 | nytimes.com | | 0:38.060 | radsoft.net | | 0:14.550 | reuters.com | | 0:25.710 | securityfocus.com | | 1:26.120 | sprint.com | | 0:22.910 | sun.com | | 0:17.130 | w3c.org | | 0:13.790 | washingtonpost.com | | 0:26.040 | whitehouse.gov | | 0:29.880 | wsj.com | | 0:30.210 | www.arin.net | | 0:28.400 | www.royal.gov.uk | | 0:30.540 | www.uu.net | | 0:13.620 | zd.net | | 0:33.060 |
| | Sorted by resultswww.uu.net | | 0:13.620 | w3c.org | | 0:13.790 | radsoft.net | | 0:14.550 | sun.com | | 0:17.130 | news.bbc.co.uk | | 0:19.440 | foundstone.com | | 0:19.610 | my.yahoo.com | | 0:20.100 | sprint.com | | 0:22.910 | aol.com | | 0:24.940 | geocities.com | | 0:25.100 | reuters.com | | 0:25.710 | incidents.org | | 0:25.930 | washingtonpost.com | | 0:26.040 | att.com | | 0:28.290 | www.arin.net | | 0:28.400 | whitehouse.gov | | 0:29.880 | wsj.com | | 0:30.210 | www.royal.gov.uk | | 0:30.540 | earthlink.net | | 0:31.420 | comcast.net | | 0:32.680 | zd.net | | 0:33.060 | msnbc.com | | 0:34.320 | guardian.co.uk | | 0:36.420 | news.com | | 0:37.460 | nytimes.com | | 0:38.060 | microsoft.com | | 0:38.170 | infoworld.com | | 0:49.430 | digex.com | | 0:56.730 | securityfocus.com | | 1:26.120 |
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