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Originally Posted by tpearl5

Well, it specifically states that the data comes from google toolbar...

Oh, I see.. it says:

It shows you the average page load time for pages in your site, the trend over the last few months, and some suggestions on how to make the pages load faster. Page load time is the total time from the moment the user clicks on a link to your page until the time the entire page is loaded and displayed in a browser. It is collected directly from users who have installed the Google Toolbar and have enabled the optional PageRank feature

You are right! If you have users on slow links, you will see very slow results. If you have users on very fast links who don't have the Toolbar installed, their results will not count.

This is a terrible measure of performance!

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Originally Posted by petchat

I get 2.2 seconds on average, on a middle of the road VPS, with a few hacks installed .

It has very little to do with your server, LOL.

We have a super dedicated server with 16GB of memory and plenty of power and our server is very fast.

The issue is where your users are who have installed Google Toolbar. The further away from your server and the slower their link, the worse performance.

In other words, this Google Labs feature is not very useful at all on sites with global traffic.