Mass Motoring has a very lightweight front page. 27 objects and no external calls. CSS is all in the header so is cached locally after the 1st visit too. It's an example of very tight coding and concise files. The M/A home page has 87 objects and a few of them are images. In comparison MINI2 has 42 outside calls, 4 outside css calls, 41 outside image calls and 22 different java scripts. And "that other site", Oy vey...117 external calls on the main page.
I just had a thought... ISP's might actually be motivated to provide lousy DNS performance. It's an indirect way to throttle bandwidth.
You can do it either on every PC or wireless device or on the router. I changed the router settings, a heck of a lot easier. Don't forget to reboot the router when complete for the settings to take effect.
OK, not a router tech guy at all so bear with me...... I've got a Linksys BEFSR41 wired 4 port router. On the setup tab it has the fields to put in the static dns 1, 2, and 3 numbers. These are all zero's. When I go to the status tab it shows address's for all 3. Do I simply put in the new address's (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) as DNS adress's 1 and 2?
I switched mine and rebooted. waited a few min and typed google.com in my browser and took a full 30 secs to load. Running FFv3.5.5. Bleh.
Nathan, Sorry, but I am still here ! So you got the new Top Gear yet........lol And I have to say things are definitely faster.
Did you type the 8s correctly? :eek6: :lol: Maybe it's FireFox - it always takes that long to load on my PC!
keep in mind, FF caches pages. When you navigate to the same page, but, the DNS is new, it goes.... "WTF mate!!". I think clearing my cache would have been a better test. All is well now.
You could download namebench to compare your ISP's DNS with Googles. namebench - Project Hosting on Google Code