[SOLVED] We'd like your help - LQ is choosing a CDN
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We'd like your help - LQ is choosing a CDN
As you may know, LQ has utilized a CDN (content distribution network) to speed static content delivery for some time. We're considering switching, however, and would like to see which CDN is the fastest for LQ members. Below I've included three pages that load multiple images from each CDN. We'd like your feedback on which images load the fastest and are cached the best from your location. I've also included a page that loads all images from a local LQ URL as a reference point. Thanks for the feedback.
Any particular test you suggest we try?
Simply clicking on them, each of the four loads too fast for me to see the difference.
Do you know a good tool for timing how very fast a tiny image loads? Or are you just worried about people in odd corners of the internet where those don't all load fast? Or should you have provided harder test images? Or am I totally missing the point?
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Realistically, all four should be similar if you're in the USA and on broadband. The benefits of a CDN come in pushing the content closer to the user and more aggressive caching. It's possible that this test is a bit too simple. If that's the case I'll create a page that loads a bunch of images from each CDN - which is closer to how things actually work at LQ in the real world.
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win32sux, I updated the test to include multiple images. The reason I didn't put up a single large file is that in the real world, that's not how we use the CDN. A single large file is going to test throughput, which we really don't care about much. Latency on a bunch of smaller files is a better indicator for our usage pattern.
win32sux, I updated the test to include multiple images. The reason I didn't put up a single large file is that in the real world, that's not how we use the CDN. A single large file is going to test throughput, which we really don't care about much. Latency on a bunch of smaller files is a better indicator for our usage pattern.
As you may know, LQ has utilized a CDN (content distribution network) to speed static content delivery for some time. We're considering switching, however, and would like to see which CDN is the fastest for LQ members. Below I've included three pages that load multiple images from each CDN. We'd like your feedback on which images load the fastest and are cached the best from your location. I've also included a page that loads all images from a local LQ URL as a reference point. Thanks for the feedback.
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Loading in the browser wasn't quite effective as the 1st image in the link is already cached (it's the LQ.org logo I see at the top of the page). On a second test the first one seemed the fastest. I checked with wget and cloudfront link was faster than cdnlayer. And cachefly was usually the slowest in the tests.
Here are rough values after multiple runs of wget. The values changed a lot. These are just the values with the highest frequency. (For the earlier posted image links)
Here's are rough values after multiple runs of wget. The values changed a lot. These are just the values with the highest frequency. (For the earlier posted image links)
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