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Anyone notice all the testing locations are AWS Regions? I was assuming webpagetest was a Google property and figured they would use their own data centers.
by rkalla 15y ago
Anyone notice all the testing locations are AWS Regions?
I was assuming webpagetest was a Google property and figured they would use their own data centers.
- brown9-2 15y agoThat doesn't prove much though, does it? "Northern Virginia" is a pretty broad region.
- bigtones 15y agoWeird that their default test browser is IE8 too. Hello Chrome ?
- bdonlan 15y agoTesting from within their own datacenters would be biased _very_ heavily toward their own service, don't you think? These tests are only meaningful if performed on an external ISP. Note also that if you do the test it says "US East (Virginia) - IE 8 - DSL", suggesting that it's on a regular DSL connection, not a EC2 box.
- jackwagon 15y agoAWS regions and what Google is using are common to many service providers. These are typical peering locations. Google does have the benefit of having caches local to various ISPs.
- joshfraser 15y agoWebPageTest originally came out of AOL as an open source project. Patrick Meenan was the lead on that. He recently took a job at Google, but WebPageTest is still open source and has contributions from lots of companies who care about performance. For example, my company Torbit sponsors a WebPageTest instance in Ireland.