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by piotrjurkiewicz 3495 days ago
> IPv6 is faster for two reasons. The first is that many major operating systems and browsers like iOS, MacOS, Chrome and Firefox impose anywhere from a 25ms to 300ms artificial delay on connections made over IPv4.

He forgot to add that this only applies to dual-stack hosts...

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And, unless something is serious broken in all of those systems, only if the target is also dual stack.

So an IPv4-only website should not incur any delay.