Server versus Website Speed – The Impact of Traffic Loads on Euro 2012 Media Sites

EURO2012 dotcom-monitor.com uefa.com Best Server Performance guardian.co.uk bbc.co.uk 5 2.1036 bleacherreport.com 1.3786 uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/euro/ 9 3.2844 ukraine2012.gov.ua 7 2.628 guardian.co.uk 11 3.4518 uefa.com 1 0.8524 skysports.com 10 3.3235 euro-2012news.com 6 2.2814 goal.com 2 1.0159 sportinglife.com 8 2.842 thesun.co.uk 3 1.0236 Secs. 0.0 1.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 to load: bbc.co.uk Best Web-Site Performance thesun.co.uk bbc.co.uk 15.571 bleacherreport.com 6 22.0721 uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/euro/ 10 28.0836 ukraine2012.gov.ua 3 18.2691 guardian.co.uk 5 21.0224 uefa.com 4 20.5991 skysports.com 9 24.5029 euro-2012news.com 2 17.4172 goal.com 7 23.9358 sportinglife.com 8 24.1076 thesun.co.uk 11 30.5762 Secs. to load: 10 15 20 25 30 35 How Sites Performed During Final Italy - Spain Match 5 4 3 2 12:50 13:00 13:10 13:20 13:30 13:40 13:50 14:00 14:10 14:20 14:30 14:40 14:50 V Task: http://www.uefa.com Task: http://www.quardian.co.uk Task: http://www1.skysports.com Task: http://www.bbc.co.uk Task: http://euro-2012news.com/ Task: http://bleacherreport.com/ Task: http://www.goal.com/ Task: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/euro/ Task: http://ukraine2012.gov.ua V Task: http://www.thesun.co.uk/ Task: http://www.sportinglife.com Notable Facts BBC.co.uk, the fastest site on the results of our research, UEFA.com showed contrary results - its server show better has quite slow server. It is just 5th with 2.1036 seconds response time but site is on 4th place with 20.5991 seconds loading time average server response time. Guardian.co.uk - the slowest server. Average response TheSun.co.uk - the slowest site. Average loading time is 30.6 seconds time is 3.4 seconds EURO2012 dotcom-monitor.com uefa.com Best Server Performance guardian.co.uk bbc.co.uk 5 2.1036 bleacherreport.com 1.3786 uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/euro/ 9 3.2844 ukraine2012.gov.ua 7 2.628 guardian.co.uk 11 3.4518 uefa.com 1 0.8524 skysports.com 10 3.3235 euro-2012news.com 6 2.2814 goal.com 2 1.0159 sportinglife.com 8 2.842 thesun.co.uk 3 1.0236 Secs. 0.0 1.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 to load: bbc.co.uk Best Web-Site Performance thesun.co.uk bbc.co.uk 15.571 bleacherreport.com 6 22.0721 uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/euro/ 10 28.0836 ukraine2012.gov.ua 3 18.2691 guardian.co.uk 5 21.0224 uefa.com 4 20.5991 skysports.com 9 24.5029 euro-2012news.com 2 17.4172 goal.com 7 23.9358 sportinglife.com 8 24.1076 thesun.co.uk 11 30.5762 Secs. to load: 10 15 20 25 30 35 How Sites Performed During Final Italy - Spain Match 5 4 3 2 12:50 13:00 13:10 13:20 13:30 13:40 13:50 14:00 14:10 14:20 14:30 14:40 14:50 V Task: http://www.uefa.com Task: http://www.quardian.co.uk Task: http://www1.skysports.com Task: http://www.bbc.co.uk Task: http://euro-2012news.com/ Task: http://bleacherreport.com/ Task: http://www.goal.com/ Task: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/euro/ Task: http://ukraine2012.gov.ua V Task: http://www.thesun.co.uk/ Task: http://www.sportinglife.com Notable Facts BBC.co.uk, the fastest site on the results of our research, UEFA.com showed contrary results - its server show better has quite slow server. It is just 5th with 2.1036 seconds response time but site is on 4th place with 20.5991 seconds loading time average server response time. Guardian.co.uk - the slowest server. Average response TheSun.co.uk - the slowest site. Average loading time is 30.6 seconds time is 3.4 seconds