Hi
As some may know already, we are a hosting company (actually classed as ESP), and after reading weaver post, I thought I would check a few client sites.
As you can see, the issues tend not to be on the servers/clusters which slow things down (albeit I accept some delays are caused by servers/clusters at times, perhaps by Mysql quese etc... but these are generally carefully tuned and monitored) but in general, a server loading less then 5 is completely acceptable to users viewing websites.
The important point is time to first byte and in general, it is then down to website code.
Interestingly though, some clients wanted full compression turned off for some sites, as they server 4K content, and stated compression caused picture loss (I could not see it myself when I checked but we made the changes for them)
CDN are good, as they cache static (you decide what to cache), and then the website is parallel fed on load of website.
A point to also note, is if users have changed their browser settings for parallel streams, but lets say not many do (even Azure advices parallel changes to speed up Azure browsing/downloading using a browser)
Lastly, be aware of tricks to make you think a page has loaded fully, as it may not have, but most sites become usable prior to fully loaded. As an example, ebay does not fully load for a long time, but looks to load quickly and uses this preceived load trick as I remember, but sorry if I am wrong
From a gamers point of view, there are many tricks gamers use to make latency work for them, such as light switche, which induces high latency (were it is low) when joining a game session, and once the game servers has equalised each session for latency, they turn of light switch, so they now have an advantage over other players (usually easily spotted by players) but if you get caught cheating, your usually banned for life on our name tag
I hope that helps a little
Many thanks
John
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