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by bostonvaulter2 4186 days ago
Isn't the three second load page they list on the slow side?
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I wasn't super thrilled with it either, until I dug in and discovered that it's the global average. We have a ton of international and mobile traffic, which factors into this sum:

1. United States (average load: 1.97 s) 2. United Kingdom (average load: 2.29 s) 3. India (average load: 7.48 s) 4. China (average load: 12.11 s)

Average load of these countries is 6 seconds, which seems absolutely horrid...until I tell you that the US has about seven times more traffic than the UK.

I didn't want to fudge the graph and take out those slow outliers--the truth's the truth.