Or you know, set a maximum payload size to load the main page then load the rest of the needed content (when it is actually needed). Set a well known header on

Or you know, set a maximum payload size to load the main page then load the rest of the needed content (when it is actually needed). Set a well known header on the contents and use that header (and the time it took to retrieve it) as a way to detemine the aprox time it would take to retrieve your well known payload size... I know I am over simplifying it but... Its Google and they hire some of the most brilliant minds in the wolrd and put them to do unit tests... I think many of them would be happy to be put up to a problem of this type