Slow In India - Blazing Fast Elsewhere

[bhagwad]

I have a large number of Indian visitors to my blog. While I get extremely good tests results when I set the webpagetest location in the US, the speeds for India are horrendous!

Here are the results:

US: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130910_AA_GWB/

First View: 1.844 seconds

India: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130910_QT_HTD/

First View: 25.892 seconds!

When I check to see what's holding it up, there are large unexplained gaps in the timeline where nothing seems to be happening. No connection, no download, no waiting.

I would appreciate any insight into what's causing these problems. I have no idea whether these timings are representative of my users in India or a specific issue with the test itself for some reason...

[bhagwad]

A follow up:

It seems to be some kind of issue with the testing infrastructure. I asked some individuals living in India to check out a few pages and they said it was quite fast. Nowhere near the 25+ seconds I'm getting from webpagetest.

I'm very interested to know the cause of this discrepancy.

[pmeenan]

Sorry, it looks like there were serious CPU performance issues with the Delhi VPS. It looks a lot better from the other India test location: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130912...024baa11e/

I just killed the Delhi location and will look for another provider.

[bhagwad]

(09-13-2013 05:07 AM)pmeenan Wrote:  Sorry, it looks like there were serious CPU performance issues with the Delhi VPS. It looks a lot better from the other India test location: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130912...024baa11e/

I just killed the Delhi location and will look for another provider.

Ah! Thank you for the explanation