According to pingdom my average response time is: 701ms with my fastest average 476ms.

What is yours?

Response from what to what?

My reponse time on voice mail messages for example is measured in days…

Ha.

According to Pingdom’s tools: “Your website is faster than 100% of all tested websites”.

Beat that.

After some improvements my pingdom average response time is now 574ms with the fastest average 459ms.

Just curious what the pingdom response time of other websites are and how it mine compares.

Imho not very useful.

Where is your site hosted? What’s the performance of your server? And it’s middleware? What kind of connectivity? From where is pingdom running the tests?

What is “your website”? CI’s “Hello World”? An eCommerce shop with hunderds of images, stylesheets, scriptfiles, etc?

Too many variables…

When driving in New York City, the average response time, starting the timer when the traffic light turns green and ending the timer when I honk my horn at the person still stopped in front of me, is 272ms.

That’s kind of rude, isn’t it?

Where do you find the patience…

Daniel Moore - 23 August 2012 11:40 AM

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That’s kind of rude, isn’t it?

On the part of the driver or the pedestrian? And it is New York City after all. Patience? What’s that?

Just drive with your hand on the horn, it makes the response time zero for all test profiles.

WanWizard - 23 August 2012 11:36 AM

Imho not very useful.

Where is your site hosted? What’s the performance of your server? And it’s middleware? What kind of connectivity? From where is pingdom running the tests?

What is “your website”? CI’s “Hello World”? An eCommerce shop with hunderds of images, stylesheets, scriptfiles, etc?

Too many variables…

I hear you.

I’m talking about the average response time from various pingdom servers in north america and western europe which comes with their basic accounts. I use pingdom mainly to track the uptime of the servers where my sites are hosted. Also I’m not talking about the load time. I’m talking about a the site without images, just simple plain html output which will be about 20 to 30 kb (5-8kb compressed?) depending on the page.