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?
fr might in fact be very slightly slower than en since it loads a second
language file and the UTF-8 support functions & data. (This will be
mostly eliminated once en converts to UTF-8 someday.)
However all speed is extremely variable on these wikis, and depends on
the load of the servers, how much you've got cached, whether you're
logged in, whether the page is cached in the parser cache, the
complexity of the pages involved, whether there are templates, whether
the templates are cached, whether you have new messages, whether there's
a site message, whether your user data's cached, and the phase of the
moon. The absolute speed difference will be *dwarfed* by the hit-to-hit
variations.
-- brion vibber (brino @
pobox.com)