Fiferfox and HH homepage loads in 14 seconds...why
by Hudd on Mar 26, 2008 10:13 AM PDT
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To figure out how long it takes to load HH home page, start at a page that has the link to HH home page. In the tools option clear the cache by clicking on Clear Private Data. Click on the link to HH. Then in the URL box enter:
about:cache?device=memory
What I find on a standard DSL connection, the HH homepage takes 14 seconds to load. There are 155 requests to different URLs to load something.
If one notices how many SBNATION entries there are and how many ad entries there are and sums the time between each SBNATION request, then one can determine the overhead added by using SBNATION as the intermediate server to HH.
Since I don't have access to the old server, I cannot say how long a native request would take.
If there is interest, I will post some tweaks one might make in FF to improve performance.
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What performance tweaks?
Biggest one I know of is A-----k P--s, but I suppose that's likely to be unpopular with certain folks.
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by scareduck on Mar 26, 2008 12:38 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Most people who run websites hate that particular extension because it reduces ad revenue to zilch. Hence the censor.
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by Carl Johnson on Mar 26, 2008 6:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
mine takes 3 seconds
but then again, I don't run any anti-virus/spyware/adware etc that it has to blog through to load.
by ladybug on Mar 26, 2008 11:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
mine doesn't take that long
Sea-at-ha-ha-ha that's funny.
by hauldog on Mar 27, 2008 2:41 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
We'll be putting performance tweaks into place
as well during the next week. We're reducing the http calls and doing a number of other things to speed things up, especially in FF2.
Things are much faster in Safari and IE7, strangely enough. FireFox 3 includes a much faster rendering engine (much of the current slowness comes when FF applies CSS to the markup), but we're focused on speeding things up in general.
And Hudd, thanks for helping out the community with this! We're using Firebug to measure load times (among other tools), bu I had no idea about the about:cache hack. Very cool.
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by sixfoot6 on Mar 29, 2008 8:03 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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