Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-21 Thread Kashani
Grant wrote: I've been optimizing my site's performance by tuning the server-side code and watching how it affects the amount of time Firefox reports as "Waiting". It seems like the "Transferring" time would be optimized by reducing the size of the HTML to download. What about "Looking up" and "C

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-21 Thread Grant
> > > That might be true for YOU but not necessarily for everyone else. > > > > If it's true for me, it's almost definitely true for others, and > > that's a problem. It doesn't need to be true for "everyone else" to > > be a problem. > > Mind giving us a URL so we can DOS^H^H^Hhelp figure it out

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:37:44PM -0800, Grant wrote: > > That might be true for YOU but not necessarily for everyone else. > > If it's true for me, it's almost definitely true for others, and > that's a problem. It doesn't need to be true for "everyone else" to > be a problem. Mind giving us a

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-21 Thread Grant
> > "A few seconds" can easily be the difference between a customer > > spending enough time on my site to find something they want to buy, > > and not. When I click on a search results link, I'll hit stop and try > > another link if the page takes a few seconds too long to load. > > That might b

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Grant wrote: > "A few seconds" can easily be the difference between a customer > spending enough time on my site to find something they want to buy, > and not. When I click on a search results link, I'll hit stop and try > another link if the page takes a few seconds too long

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-21 Thread Grant
> > I noticed that if I'm doing a lot of clicking around there is pretty > > much no time spent with either of those, but if I work on something > > and then come back to the browser after a bit, Firefox can really > > spend some time there. > > Could be anything. Maybe Firefox is caching stuff ,

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Grant wrote: > I noticed that if I'm doing a lot of clicking around there is pretty > much no time spent with either of those, but if I work on something > and then come back to the browser after a bit, Firefox can really > spend some time there. Could be anything. Maybe Fire

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-20 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Grant ha scritto: It could have to with a lot of stuff. It is possible that FF has some DNS cache that gets flushed , it also almost certain ( don't trust me, my ISP has, I guess it is common :) ) that your ISP has a DNS cache and it is possible that other users queries have flushed yours. You can

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-20 Thread Grant
> It could have to with a lot of stuff. It is possible that FF has some > DNS cache that gets flushed , it also almost certain ( don't trust me, > my ISP has, I guess it is common :) ) that your ISP has a DNS cache and > it is possible that other users queries have flushed yours. You can ask > mozi

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-20 Thread Grant
> It could have to with a lot of stuff. It is possible that FF has some > DNS cache that gets flushed , it also almost certain ( don't trust me, > my ISP has, I guess it is common :) ) that your ISP has a DNS cache and > it is possible that other users queries have flushed yours. You can ask > mozi

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-20 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 20 February 2005 10:39, Grant wrote: > > The time needed to lookup is probably spend running a DNS lookup , I > > doubt changes to your apache can affect this in any way. There is always > > a latency associated with the network ( especially on a non-LAN ) , so > > don't try to get it fas

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-20 Thread Ivan Yosifov
It could have to with a lot of stuff. It is possible that FF has some DNS cache that gets flushed , it also almost certain ( don't trust me, my ISP has, I guess it is common :) ) that your ISP has a DNS cache and it is possible that other users queries have flushed yours. You can ask mozilla-devs a

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-20 Thread Grant
> The time needed to lookup is probably spend running a DNS lookup , I > doubt changes to your apache can affect this in any way. There is always > a latency associated with the network ( especially on a non-LAN ) , so > don't try to get it faster that light :) For example , measure the ping > roun

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-20 Thread Ivan Yosifov
The time needed to lookup is probably spend running a DNS lookup , I doubt changes to your apache can affect this in any way. There is always a latency associated with the network ( especially on a non-LAN ) , so don't try to get it faster that light :) For example , measure the ping round-trip tim

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-20 Thread Tom Wesley
Grant wrote: I've been optimizing my site's performance by tuning the server-side code and watching how it affects the amount of time Firefox reports as "Waiting". It seems like the "Transferring" time would be optimized by reducing the size of the HTML to download. What about "Looking up" and "C

[gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-20 Thread Grant
I've been optimizing my site's performance by tuning the server-side code and watching how it affects the amount of time Firefox reports as "Waiting". It seems like the "Transferring" time would be optimized by reducing the size of the HTML to download. What about "Looking up" and "Connecting"?