| Gilgamesh said: I timed abunch of websites to give you an idea of how long it takes, I got a connection speed of 5 Mbps, and a fairly good rig for flash. This is for the main page of these websites and this is until everything is loaded. VG Chartz: 19 seconds Gametrailers: 15 seconds IGN: 14 seconds MetaCritic: 10 seconds Youtube: 8 seconds GameSpot: 8 seconds Gamefaqs: 6 seconds Google: 1 second
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Just checking based on size of the first page of a few based on a T1 (1.44mbps) rate.
vgchartz.com T1 1.44Mbps 19.05 seconds Bytes: 536753
www.ign.com T1 1.44Mbps 1.29 seconds bytes: 54466
www.metacritic.com T1 1.44Mbps 9.24 seconds 196665
www.youtube.com T1 1.44Mbps 2.23 seconds 81003
Based on these numbers, it looks like you are getting about T1 speed from vgchartz and other sites, and not the 5mbps you thought you were getting.
vgchartz is a bit heavy with more graphics compared to the other sites, but it's probably your bandwidth that is making it slow when it's not slow for others. That said, it would be nice if there was a "light-weight" version of the site that turned off most of the graphics and other stuff for those without high speed connections.
I just cleared my cache, and checked... Took 6 seconds for the home page of vgchartz.com (no ads block, all fash and java enabled, etc). Normally it's faster (about 2-3) if I don't clear my cache. I have a 7mbps DSL.
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