(This question probably has a definite answer; Mods feel free to move it to GQ if you wish. OTOH, I don’t “need” an answer. My only motive in posting is idle curiosity.)
As I’ve reported several times, some websites load very slowly for me. A good example is Washington Post – if I click on any news story, it usually takes more than a minute before the page displays. Some other news sites also load slowly; but many load quickly. There’s so much I do not know about the Internet; understanding this slow load might be a way to start learning.
I live in Thailand; I link to Internet via Never-heard-of-me Fly-by-Night Wifi Guy. :smack: Yet it isn’t generally slow: Just now, while watching Washington Post load so very slowly I ran speedtest.net connected to a server in Washington, D.C. and got 4.5 Mbps Download Speed - close to Fly-by-Night’s limit. Ping time to Washington is 318 ms.
The Washington Post page itself sometimes loads quickly – I can press Control-U and read the story, though that is inconvenient. But it doesn’t display until other loads complete, e.g. from js.washingtonpost.com. (I understand, sort of, that the html is probably poorly organized – with proper design display should begin before the javascripts are loaded – but that isn’t my question. I just wonder why the slowness for some parts.)
Does it have anything to do with proxy servers? I’ve heard that all Internet packets are inspected (censored?) by government computers in Bangkok. True? Cause of slowdown? I’ll try to remember to test an Internet café computer and learn if the problem is specific to my Fly-by-Night connection.
As I say, the issue isn’t urgent. I’m just curious.