[imported_silkroad]

We understand the numbers. We deliver over 4 Million Page Views a month and run many stats on our pages.

The numbers are pretty much meaningless. Our pages do not load in 9 seconds for anyone unless they are in on a very slow link in their home country.

Then are not even close to accurate.

You cannot judge the speed of a server based on the performance of an unknown client in locations that might be on dialup or very slow links.

Sorry, but to argue otherwise shows a lack of understanding of basic networking.

Client side performance does not equate to service side performance.

In addition, for large global sites, most smaller and less developed countries have very slow access back to the US or even global delivery nodes.

The only way the numbers would have any meaning would to provide the country and perhaps also the measured bandwidth stats.