945180 - Accessing MDN takes 7-8 seconds from Stockholm

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Performance, defect)

Description

[jonatan.littke]

What did you do?
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1. Try to access MDN, e.g 'position' CSS property
2. Wait 7-8 secs
3. Be happy for great results but be sad for slow results

What happened?
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slow

What should have happened?
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fast

Is there anything else we should know?
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Tried at home, at work, different offices, has always been the same. Has been like this for a couple of years (?), at least so ingrained in my memory that googling MDN is always what I want but it's always a little pain because its so slow. Tried different DNS servers. Thanks.

Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2013-12-02 at 11.17.10.png

I see the same timings from Switzerland (with a full cache). I attached the timing log.

Note that the slowness of the MDN is a regular complain (reddit, hacker news, bugs) and often cited as the reason to access the competition, even if less accurate (but accurate enough for some specific request).

Looking at the log, the only obvious, but secondary, time that can be won is the removal of the loading of the Google icon.

Comment 2

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Could you give us an update here please?

Comment 3

[jonatan.littke]

Who, me? :)

Comment 4

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

David: 6.5s from Paris tonight. Difficult to know if it is the Web site who is faster or the connection I'm on right now.

Still far from the expected speed.

Comment 5

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Jonatan: can you test again? Some relevant patch landed a couple of days ago.

Comment 6

[jonatan.littke]

Great job, much faster.