Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?
We have been measuring google's "reachability" performance and it is quite amazing. The results of their tuning is that they can achieve downloading of their initial HTML in under ~250 milliseconds and many locations under 100 ms.  The other thing the data shows is the standard deviation on the download times are very small making the site consistently load fast.<p><a href="http://www.yottaa.com/url/4be004065df8ca5a730001fb/reachability" rel="nofollow">http://www.yottaa.com/url/4be004065df8ca5a730001fb/reachabil...</a>