Why does a website in Germany load quicker in the US than Japan? | Thread profile

Hey everyone, thanks for the help. The problem I am having is that I am testing out a proxy we have in NY, and a proxy we have in Japan. The computer that I am using is in Toyoseu, Japan. What I want to know is why, when navigation to the website: stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/1693599 it takes longer to load using the Tokyo proxy. Normally, I would think that it ...

Do a trace and see where else it's going ... assuming all other things are equal is a bit of a stretch too I'd imagine. Try again in 12 hours your results may differ :-)

Quote: Originally Posted by medialint Do a trace and see where else it's going ... assuming all other things are equal is a bit of a stretch too I'd imagine. Try again in 12 hours your results may differ :-) For testing, I used a new browser instance with a cold cache to start for each of the proxies. I then tested a total of 10 loads. Almost every one of...

Germany -> USA : 7806 kilometers Germany -> Japan: 8821 kilometers Roughly. Maybe physical distance doesn't have much of an influence though. America -> Japan: 9159 kilometers

Quote: Originally Posted by conoroleary Germany -> USA : 7806 kilometers Germany -> Japan: 8821 kilometers Roughly. Maybe physical distance doesn't have much of an influence though. America -> Japan: 9159 kilometers That's also sense of what traffic providers are interconnecting and the load on those overseas lines. Not always distance.

Traceroute says yoiu nothing. The better way ask them for download file to test the spped.

I agree , ask a download test file this can give you some answers about the speed.