Facebook is the Fastest Social Network

Now it has been declared that Facebook is the fastest social network around the world, YouTube being second and Linkedln being third.

Yes, you read it right. Now it has been declared that Facebook is the fastest social network around the world, YouTube being second and Linkedln being third.

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According to a survey conducted by Alertsite , Facebook’s home page was the fastest to load among other social networking sites. It was noted that between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, Facebook’s homepage took 1.06 seconds to load.

YouTube came second taking 1.36 seconds to load, whereas Linkdln took 1.70 seconds. Twitter came in fourth taking 2.76 seconds to load. Regarding availability, Facebook came 5th with 99.81%. YouTube is the best there with 99.99% availability.

So, what should be done to improve the availability of this site? 🙂 Share your views with me through the comments below.

3 Comments

Kapil January 9, 2011

One of the main reasons to make it fast is http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358

Himadri Dimri January 9, 2011

🙂 Yes …