Re: UKNM: Web Connection Performance Testing

[Steve Mynott]

On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 03:31:46PM +0000, Sam Michel wrote:


> I was wondering if anyone has or can remember the names (and hopefully)

> URLs of companies who measure network performance of a website? I can't

> remember where I read about them, but there were at least a couple of

> companies who had accounts at numerous ISPs and would test download speeds

> for a client website at set intervals during days to make sure the site's

> performance was up to scratch.


I think getting any meaningful and consistent results from this would

be next to impossible.


Network performance between ISPs (even linx peers in the UK) is subject

to so many factors and you would have to carefully analyse traceroutes

to see where the bottlenecks are.


http://webperf.zeus.co.uk/ was a fairly serious attempt to do this

but reading their methodology page shows a lot of problems (which

at least they were honest enough to admit).


I think you would be wasting your time in doing this and have to accept

that network connections are generally slow, sites should be lightweight

and video etc. currently impossible.


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