Comments on: Web Performance of the World’s Top 50 Blogs https://www.pingdom.com/blog/web-performance-of-the-worlds-top-50-blogs/ Website Performance and Availability Monitoring | Pingdom Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:27:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: David Hund https://www.pingdom.com/blog/web-performance-of-the-worlds-top-50-blogs/#comment-6124 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:27:38 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=24108#comment-6124 Great roundup.

What stands out to me is that the Google Page Speed performance grade does not seem to reflect the other metrics. For example: while TMZ scores worst in almost all categories—and based on this should have poor (‘perceived’) performance—the difference in Google Page Speed score seems smallish: 93 (best) vs. 69 (TMZ).

This shows, I think, the fact that we should not place too much value on automated ‘technical’ scores but focus rather on results more closely linked to Real User Experience.

On that note: I miss the (more experience-focused) Google SpeedIndex scores?

]]> By: Deepak https://www.pingdom.com/blog/web-performance-of-the-worlds-top-50-blogs/#comment-6123 Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:09:09 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=24108#comment-6123 All at one place …..Nice job

]]> By: Pillow https://www.pingdom.com/blog/web-performance-of-the-worlds-top-50-blogs/#comment-6121 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:54:22 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=24108#comment-6121 It would be interesting to see how many domains all these requests spread, since DNS lookups, TCP handshake and TLS handshake will all have their toll. A total number of packets sent statistic would also be interesting, since this would include the DNS/TCP/TLS overhead and also show whether some site get a higher number there due to congestion and resulting packet loss.

]]> By: Tim https://www.pingdom.com/blog/web-performance-of-the-worlds-top-50-blogs/#comment-6119 Fri, 12 Feb 2016 22:31:31 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=24108#comment-6119 In reply to Gary Mchugh.

Lol, wordpress? Yeah, I imagine load times and such are quick with such a simple concept such as WordPress and themes.

]]> By: Jonas Strandell https://www.pingdom.com/blog/web-performance-of-the-worlds-top-50-blogs/#comment-6117 Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:37:57 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=24108#comment-6117 In reply to Denis.

Thank you Denis, updated with a fix.

]]> By: Denis https://www.pingdom.com/blog/web-performance-of-the-worlds-top-50-blogs/#comment-6115 Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:38:11 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=24108#comment-6115 Very interesting.

Some spelling mistakes in some of the charts though: “makeusof” should be “makeuseof” and “tutplus” should be “tutsplus” to name a few.

Nevertheless a very interesting read.

]]> By: Gary Mchugh https://www.pingdom.com/blog/web-performance-of-the-worlds-top-50-blogs/#comment-6113 Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:50:10 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=24108#comment-6113 Strange that some of the biggest blogs are so slow. We build almost exclusively with WordPress and nearly ALL our client sites whether in the US or the UK come in at under 1 second.

Given we did work hard on our servers to achieve this, but you would think the bigger more well known blogs would have this off to a fine art.

Pingdom is extremely useful for anyone looking to optimize their site.

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