Here is an example of tests we ran with and without Propel Accelerator.
| Popular Web Sites |
*Before
Propel® |
*With Propel |
How much
Faster
with Propel? |
| Ebay |
11.65 seconds |
2.97 seconds |
3.92
X faster! |
| USA Today |
32.43 seconds |
3.77 seconds |
8.60
X faster! |
| Mapquest.com |
30.56 seconds |
5.01 seconds |
6.10
X faster! |
| Monster.com |
11.74 seconds |
3.04 seconds |
3.86
X faster! |
| CNN |
11.68 seconds |
2.26 seconds |
5.17
X faster! |
*Average time calculated based
on loading the home page. First time visit to a Web page
loads on average 2 times faster. Subsequent visits to the
page load, on average,
3 times faster.
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What Gets Accelerated
Most Web content will be accelerated, but there
are certain exceptions:
| What will be accelerated |
What will
*not* be accelerated |
| All text - HTML, markup, and
javascript |
Streaming media, and audio and video
files |
| Most graphics & photos -
including jpeg and gif images |
Secure pages, such as those used for
online banking and credit card forms and pages accessed
over VPN |
| Most banner ads - including animated
gif images and Macromedia Flash content |
Files downloaded outside your browser
using ftp |
| All browser-based emails |
|
| All emails that contain images
- even when read in a dedicated email program |
|
| MP3 files, executables & other
files - when downloaded from within your web browser
(depending on the quality of your connection). |
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