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June 2009 
How much faster is Gaia now?
Posted on Jun 16th, 2009
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Chris
Chris
6 times faster:
See the Response Time column. Monday and Tuesday were before our move, Wednesday-Sunday were after.
For the geeks: Our rails solution was migrated from EngineYard to Blue Box Group. We left EY's nginx/mongrel solution for nginx/passenger.
Gaia Speed Win
See the Response Time column. Monday and Tuesday were before our move, Wednesday-Sunday were after.
For the geeks: Our rails solution was migrated from EngineYard to Blue Box Group. We left EY's nginx/mongrel solution for nginx/passenger.
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Wow.. nice.. congrats!
Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful.
The site is zipping. Siona is happy. :)
Zooooom, you should check out Chrome. Just what is a browser? :-)
What's funny is I understood all that EY's nginx/mongrel vs nginx/passanger
I so appreciate all you Team folks do to improve our experience here !!!
My question is, can I actually detect the difference between 200 milliseconds and 1200 milliseconds? I believe the brain can go to 1/16th of a second, and I have heard another figure of less than that, so perhaps I can. 1200 ms is 1.2 seconds, right? — and 200 ms would be 1/5 of a second?
That probably IS detectable to the average person clicking around the site.
I myself haven't had any speed complaints for a long time, since I got a newer computer.
It was cool to see the stats, Chris. Thanks for posting !!
Love, OM Bastet
Hi OM!
Yes, it should be pretty detectable, especially for those who use computers that are up-to-date.
The stats are settling down around 300-400ms during heavy usage, so that will probably be most people's experience… Of course there's a lot of other things added on top of that number, such as the request reaching Gaia, and then your browser rendering that response. But ideally you'll have a page rendered before you get to 'pi' in 1-mississippi. :)
Ah, now THAT'S a hi-tech criterion if I ever heard one!!
ROTFL
OM