Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
Anthere reports that there is a general impression
among the French
that
en.wikipedia.org loads faster than
fr.wikipedia.org. Is this
possible?
Can we run some tests?
Each time I start my computer and I open my browser I load 10 pages at the same time:
my user page on fr, my watch list on fr, two related pages from fr,
3 normal pages from fr and a page from en: [[List of astronomical topics]].
Since several weeks, systematically, the pag efrom en load substantially
faster than the fr ones (the second page is my user page on fr, then all
the remaining one more or less at the same time).
It can be that this speed difference is due to the simultaneous loading of 3
"heavy" pages
on fr while the only from en is not so demanding.
Otherwise, I don't feel a great subjective difference of loading time between fr and
en
(but I have the impression that pages from en: loads a little bit faster, while the ones
from meta
load a little bit slower).
-- Looxix