Tag Archives: Internet Explorer

Why is Google so Fast?

It’s no coincidence that the most successful search engine on the planet is also the fastest to return results. Here are some time charts from HttpWatch for Google and its two closest competitors; Yahoo and Live.com:
Google.com returns its results page in 0.155 seconds:

Live.com returns its results page in 0.619 seconds:

Yahoo returns its results page in […]

Using Ctrl+F5 in IE 7

Typing Ctrl+F5 in Internet Explorer is a handy way to force the reload of a page and all its component parts (e.g. images, css , javascript etc). It has the same effect as visiting a page with an empty browser cache.
If you use HttpWatch with Ctrl+F5 in IE 6, you can see that every request […]