WebPagetest Forums - different result each time?

My thanks to all who created this great website!

Anyways, I'm testing a specific page of this website and get different results each time! Is it just me? Now sure what is going on...!

See for yourself:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100207_4Z0G/

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100208_4Z3D/

regards,

ULTRON

Edit: Notice the "Compress Text" is different in each case!

Looks like your server is changing the responses for some reason. If you look at the raw response headers for stylecss.php:

4Z0G:

Code:

Response Headers:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:27:56 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6

Content-Encoding: gzip

Vary: Accept-Encoding

Cache-Control: max-age=5184000

Expires: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:40:19 GMT

Age: 46057

Content-Length: 931

Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100

Connection: Keep-Alive

Content-Type: text/css

4Z3d:

Code:

Response Headers:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:28:43 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6

Cache-Control: max-age=5184000

Expires: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:46:47 GMT

Age: 9716

Content-Length: 2736

Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100

Connection: Keep-Alive

Content-Type: text/css

The request headers look identical so there is something on your side that is behaving differently for some percentage of the requests.

Hi pmeenan - thanks for the reply. I figured it out - my httpd.conf was not configured to cache properly, and I fixed it. This is because I copied and pasted this incorrect code from some forum.

Regards,

ULTRON

(02-09-2010 12:51 AM)pmeenan Wrote: [ -> ]Looks like your server is changing the responses for some reason. If you look at the raw response headers for stylecss.php:

4Z0G:

Code:

Response Headers: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:27:56 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6 Content-Encoding: gzip Vary: Accept-Encoding Cache-Control: max-age=5184000 Expires: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:40:19 GMT Age: 46057 Content-Length: 931 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/css

4Z3d:

Code:

Response Headers: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:28:43 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6 Cache-Control: max-age=5184000 Expires: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:46:47 GMT Age: 9716 Content-Length: 2736 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/css

The request headers look identical so there is something on your side that is behaving differently for some percentage of the requests.