facebook - slowest of all social websites online.
 

facebook is slower then myspace.

everyone complaints about myspace's slow ass servers. facebook is a quarter of the size and is twice as slow. cant wait to see how they deal with the load once they are myspace sized.

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WatchMouse research shows Facebook performance poorest of all

The Netherlands, January 10, 2008 ? Popular social networking sites fail to deliver to their users, according to WatchMouse. Research from the leading website monitoring company has shown that web 2.0 sites often are slow to open or fail to load properly. WatchMouse monitored the time it took the social networking sites, listed on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...rking_websites), to load. The results showed that the worst for availability is the immensely popular Facebook.

Other well known culprits include Twitter, last.fm, Windows Live Spaces, Friendster and del.icio.us. Of the 104 sites monitored, 51 show a Site Performance Index (SPI) of 1000 or more, making them very slow in load time. A remarkable outcome, seeing as most sites heavily use Ajax, which should lead to quicker load times since the dynamics of the site do not load immediately. Using Ajax should help websites increase interactivity, speed, functionality and usability by exchanging small amounts of data with the server so the entire webpage does not need loading fully every time someone performs an action on a page.

Of the monitored social networking sites, Faceparty performed the best - with an SPI of 303 - meaning users can access the site most frequently and in the fastest time. Looking at the results, most sites still have a lot to work on if they want their users to keep returning to their site. Research has shown that most web users are very impatient and will wait no longer than four seconds for a webpage to load.

?It is interesting to see that popular networking sites turn out to have very bad performance,? said Mark Pors, CTO at Watchmouse. ?It is surprising they still have such a big fan base when they serve their users so badly. Using Ajax technology, they should be able to work more effectively. For now the sites will need to do a lot of work to remain popular and improve their performance.?

A complete overview of the monitoring results of the WatchMouse Site Availability Index, listing all the sites monitored, can be found on http://www.watchmouse.com/SPI/2008/p...king_sites.php

its pretty buggy these days too. Especially with searches.

Yeah, it's gone down hill pretty fast lately.
Even something as simple as that dumbass poke feature takes forever to load.

Really? I thought it was GFY...

people still use facebook? I'm proud never to have had an account on there and never will.

Growing pains...

The people who did this review obviously didn't measure GFY's load times.
WG

I also thought you were referring to GFY then for a min or so :)

What's the problem? Bloatware?

There's a lot more "real" people on facebook, fake profiles don't use a whole lot of server power on myspace.