what's the holdup to render on this?

[vincej]

(02-16-2012 08:05 AM)mrPerezMarc Wrote:  Your webserver is located in canada, and you are doing a test from ashville North Carolina. That is a reason for you TTFB to take so long to connect.

No, I don't think the server location is the issue.
I'm not overly concerned with TTFB, as I am with the time to render page.

in previous tests the time to render was much quicker.

There seems to be a hang now, that was not there before.
test from chicago.
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120215_PT_38E4B/
test from los angeles
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120215_YH_38E5K/

in both tests, the pinterest links seem to be the point where the page starts to "render".

Previously, the page rendered quickly in comparison.

also note the long times to the api.pinterest...... count.json links.