Hacker News is one of the most responsive websites I know. And it is run on a single server somewhere in the USA. While I am in Europe.
If you have users in Sydney, Australia ...
... you are floored at 104ms of latency for your request
When I open AirBnB with a clean browser cache, it takes several seconds until I see something useful. Those 104ms of latency don't make a dent.
Reddit takes over 5 seconds until the cookie banner is ready for me to click it away.
Twitter takes 6 seconds to load the homepage and display the single tweet which fits on it.
preview images take a little longer to load
Preview images of what? Images usually should be routed through a CDN which caches them directly in the user's country. It's extremely cheap and easy to set up. Nothing compared to running an application in multiple datacenters.
Hacker News is one of the most responsive websites I know. And it is run on a single server somewhere in the USA. While I am in Europe.
When I open AirBnB with a clean browser cache, it takes several seconds until I see something useful. Those 104ms of latency don't make a dent.Reddit takes over 5 seconds until the cookie banner is ready for me to click it away.
Twitter takes 6 seconds to load the homepage and display the single tweet which fits on it.
Preview images of what? Images usually should be routed through a CDN which caches them directly in the user's country. It's extremely cheap and easy to set up. Nothing compared to running an application in multiple datacenters.