Here's one I didn't expect: HN loads 5.5x faster than reddit.
Yeah, I would have put HN at least 10x faster. ;)
Which loads faster? Pit websites against each other.
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#12http://google.com 2.7 × faster (1198 ms / 3191 ms) than https://google.com
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#13This uses iframes to pit websites against each other. Twitter breaks out of iframes and so do other websites.
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#14This uses iframes to pit websites against each other. Twitter breaks out of iframes and so do other websites.
Any idea how to prevent this from happening? Google seems to have figured it out in their google images iframes, but I can't for the life of me figure out how they did it.
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#15Dunno if this holds up for others, but Bing is substantially faster than Google's homepage to load, even with all of the crazy graphics... Impressive.
Fwiw, Google loaded 20% faster for me.
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#16Very cool idea. Could play with this for hours.
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#17This uses iframes to pit websites against each other. Twitter breaks out of iframes and so do other websites.
Any idea how to prevent this from happening? Google seems to have figured it out in their google images iframes, but I can't for the life of me figure out how they did it.
It looks like google parse the page serverside to detect break out of frames scripts. Here's a manually engineered example - I searched for a demo of a break out of frames script and forced the URL into a google images request:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.internet.c...
THe page just displays a "you are being redirected" message straight away, so it must be detected at the server level. Smart.
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#18Bing is faster on mine (FF)
On others it's google that is faster (They use Chrome)
So browsers seems to affect it too.
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#19This uses iframes to pit websites against each other. Twitter breaks out of iframes and so do other websites.
Any idea how to prevent this from happening? Google seems to have figured it out in their google images iframes, but I can't for the life of me figure out how they did it.
The brute-force way to do it is to run a proxy on your own server that loads the page in question, strips out either some or all of the javascript, then serves it onward.
Replacing 'top.location' with 'self.location' probably does the trick for 95% of sites.
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#20The reporting and accuracy is wrong.
I clearly see Bing loading images AFTER the timer has stopped.
This is just timing the main html, it's wrong.