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I really, really wish this particular link would disappear from the net. It is a TERRIBLE test. It has been soundly refuted over, and over, and over again. Yet
by corresation 14y ago
I really, really wish this particular link would disappear from the net. It is a TERRIBLE test. It has been soundly refuted over, and over, and over again. Yet it recurs.
He used a non-caching proxy with SPDY, against distributed non-SPDY back-end resources. This is not how anyone in the world will actually use it, and his test is effectively akin to testing the speed of a sports car by having it drive behind a transport truck: The whole foundation of the test is nonsense to begin with.
- youngtaff 14y agoThe problem is it's really hard to test a selection of real world sites without using a proxy. Got any suggestions on a better way of testing real-world sites?
- corresation 14y agoGot any suggestions on a better way of testing real-world sites? A number of mainstream sites now support SPDY, so simply turning SPDY on and off on the client side is a simple enough tactic.