If you go to Facebook.
[19:35:16.999] GET https://www.facebook.com/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 257ms]
If you go to Twitter,
[19:36:42.307] GET https://twitter.com/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 240ms]
If you go to my entry-level hosted site(godaddy, etc.)
[19:37:12.443] GET http://boomaamama.com/dev/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 150ms]
Here is SO:
[19:42:19.759] GET http://stackoverflow.com/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 117ms]
bit.ly
[20:13:46.851] GET https://bitly.com/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 88ms]
I found it strange that my site was faster and thought perhaps it was because I don’t understand what this initial get request is measuring.
Is it measuring the download time of the initial html/css blob…i.e. index.htm…or rout_to_here.php?
Or is it measuring something else?
Is it primarily location based and not service-level based?
It’s measuring the total time needed for that single request, i.e. the HTML document for the page itself.
The time may include:
If you get the FireBug plugin, you can use the Net tab to see each request in detail, including the time for each of those steps.