2185 Information Time the page is blocked fetching ads from Google 382 ms
2185 Information Time the page is blocked rendering ads from Google 15 ms

And this is from somewhere else:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5

4541 Information Time the page is blocked fetching ads from Google 821 ms
4542 Information Time the page is blocked rendering ads from Google 25 ms

Both tests with a very good connection to the Internet.

you can speed this up a bit by using the newer asynchronous analytics code, there’s less overhead. you could also put the google ad blocks in iframes that are the same size. the iframe will load in 0 time, so the page will load fast, and the content in the iframe (the advert) will then start to load, a few seconds later or however long it takes.

depending what you’re using to track that load time, it may still count the time as long, however for the end user, it’ll be faster. the page will render fast, the ads will load later.

for rethai.com

http://pattayadesignstudios.com/rethai/chart.png

it really all depends on who has the plugin installed, where they are in the world, and where the server is…

in our case, it would seem most of the time it’s users from outside of thailand looking at the site which is on a thai server.

when it hit green, google’s data set came from thai users viewing the site in thailand…

it all depends on who you’re trying to please and where all your customers come from, we know our site loads in 1 second for thai users. we’re deploying comwired global geoip routing soon and will be routing external (outside of thailand) users to a US server (syncronised content).

basically for speed and a fall over in-case one goes down.

I personally am against torturing anybody and I do believe that a woman has a right to do whatever she wants with her body in spite of what you and your religion believe.

Torture is not only evil, it’s proven to be ineffective.

And yes, it is oppression when somebody tries to impose their BELIEFS on another person.

You are an ignorant moron.

Clearly you are on Firefox 3.6 but don’t see the HUGE improvements I am seeing. It is probably limited to the Linux nightly builds then.

Debug:
7342 Information Time the page is blocked fetching ads from Google 633 ms
7343 Information Time the page is blocked rendering ads from Google 11 ms

Now i may end prefer using bind. (Ive had a bad experience with an external DNS provider)

they will geo your dns, so you can run a thai server for thai users, and then a us / uk servers for your international users.

either single location your mysql, or use mysql replication. store all your images in the amazon cloud and store your applications locally.