Re: BBC sites very slow.

Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> wrote:

>Good point. Using http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/gl52 1 minute 20
>seconds with RISC OS NetSurf, already on the icon bar; with Chrome in
>Windows, again already running, less than 2 seconds. Is this worth a
>bug report?

It might be more interesting to compare the times for a subsequent fetch.
The first one you did, form whatever OS, will have involved a lot of DNS
lookups, whihc - apart from being managed by RO (or Netsuf itself?) and
maybe cached there, may have been cached by your router.

If the latter happened, that's one reason why the second fetch might have
been a lot faster.

I dunno about Chrome's facilities, but if you have Firefox, it has a set of
developer's tools, one of which allows you to see all the things it does to
fetch a page (eg fetch the base html, fetch the files that refers to, fetch
the files the subsidiary ones referred to etc) and it will display the times
taken for different stages of the overall process, showing you which bits
took all the time.


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