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I really, really wish this particular link would disappear from the net. It is a TERRIBLE test. It has been soundly refuted over, and over, and over again. Yet it recurs.

He used a non-caching proxy with SPDY, against distributed non-SPDY back-end resources. This is not how anyone in the world will actually use it, and his test is effectively akin to testing the speed of a sports car by having it drive behind a transport truck: The whole foundation of the test is nonsense to begin with.



The problem is it's really hard to test a selection of real world sites without using a proxy.

Got any suggestions on a better way of testing real-world sites?


Got any suggestions on a better way of testing real-world sites?

A number of mainstream sites now support SPDY, so simply turning SPDY on and off on the client side is a simple enough tactic.




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