Start Render Time

[jarrod1937]

(06-21-2010 02:47 AM)pmeenan Wrote:  AFAIK, IE basically refreshes the UI when it gets some idle time and if it is busy laying out the page or queuing thing up it gets pushed back.

Well, does webpagetest accurately behave like a general user IE install? Because even if the above is the case, if the delay does give it a chance to output to the screen earlier, then to me that behavior is welcomed even at the minor expense of a 20 ms delay for the total load time. To me a 20 ms delay for load time vs. 500 ms increase in start render is a good tradeoff.
But you're correct, i wouldn't add any more delay than that, i actually originally started with a 200 ms delay and worked my way back to find the minimum delay needed to achieve the same results.