I just wanted to say this is one of the fastest loading websites I've ever seen

[Dekema2]

The front page of MacRumors loads instantly, although I'm not sure why. Hats off to whomever wrote the code and scripts.

 

[S.B.G]

It is indeed a very fast loading site.

curl -s -w 'Testing Website Response Time for :%{url_effective}\n\nLookup Time:\t\t%{time_namelookup}\nConnect Time:\t\t%{time_connect}\nPre-transfer Time:\t%{time_pretransfer}\nStart-transfer Time:\t%{time_starttransfer}\n\nTotal Time:\t\t%{time_total}\n' -o /dev/null www.macrumors.com

 

[arn]

The front page of MacRumors loads instantly, although I'm not sure why. Hats off to whomever wrote the code and scripts.

Thanks! When we did the redesign, performance was a priority to the team involved. Also we have various caching layers which helps too.

arn