GrabPERF: Search Index Weekly Results (Sep 12-18, 2005)
The weekly GrabPERF Search Index Results are in.
This Week’s Notes
- ERTW.com Agent location taken offline
- Addition of Google Blogsearch to the Index
- Numerous performance improvements to the GrabPERF interface
Week of September 12-18, 2005
TEST RESULT SUCCESS ATTEMPTS -------------------------- --------- ------- -------- PubSub - Search 0.2688096 99.82 6532 Google - Search 0.4013164 99.97 6532 Google Blogsearch - Search 0.5818507 98.60 4214 MSN - Search 0.6981630 99.83 6532 Yahoo - Search 0.7159974 99.95 6527 eBay - Search 0.8345692 100.00 6528 BlogLines - Search 1.0204595 99.95 6531 BestBuy.com - Search 1.1687228 99.97 6530 Feedster - Search 1.3112797 99.82 6531 Technorati - Search 1.3240335 99.95 6528 Amazon - Search 1.5195445 99.72 2481 Newsgator - Search 1.5823492 99.72 6529 Blogdigger - Search 1.7142475 99.97 6506 BENCHMARK RESULTS 2.0313721 99.50 76849 IceRocket - Search 4.2792600 98.79 6515 Blogpulse - Search 6.5226776 99.29 6522
These results are based on data gathered from two remote measurement locations in North America. Each location takes a measurement approximately once every five minutes.
The measurements are for the base HTML document only. No images or referenced files are included.
Technorati: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, search index, SEO
IceRocket: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, search index, SEO
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I’m a little surprised to see that the Google Blogsearch numbers aren’t better than they are. The site certainly feels much snappier than the numbers would indicate.
I’d like to suggest that you include a second test for Google BlogSearch to make the comparison to PubSub a bit more fair. What you’re retrieving from PubSub is an Atom feed, not a full HTML page. Typically, HTML pages can be filled with all sorts of junk that isn’t present in Atom feeds. Thus, the Google BlogSearch numbers may be getting dragged down by them having to transfer more data or do more formatting of the output. So, what I’d like to suggest is that you include a second “Atom” search test for Google BS that would look like this:
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?scoring=d&q=“new+york”&num=32&output=atom
Since PubSub always returns 32 results (if present) it makes sense to adjust the Google BlogSearch item “num” to be 32. Admittedly, there would still be a difference between PubSub and Google BlogSearch since GoogleBS only returns summaries while PubSub returns full posts. However, this difference in payload size might get lost in the wash.
bob wyman
Bob Wyman
September 19 2005 at 17:52
Ok the test is added.
However, PubSub will still come up on top; Google doesn’t bother to compress their ATOM feeds.
Ouch!
smp
smp
September 19 2005 at 19:58
I’d like to suggest that you include a second test for Google BlogSearch to make the comparison to PubSub a bit more fair. What you’re retrieving from PubSub is an Atom feed, not a full HTML page. Typically, HTML pages can be filled with all sorts of junk that isn’t present in Atom feeds. Thus, the Google BlogSearch numbers may be getting dragged down by them having to transfer more data or do more formatting of the output. So, what I’d like to suggest is that you include a second “Atom” search test for Google BS that would look like this:http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?s…>Since PubSub always returns 32 results (if present) it makes sense to adjust the Google BlogSearch item “num” to be 32. Admittedly, there would still be a difference between PubSub and Google BlogSearch since GoogleBS only returns summaries while PubSub returns full posts. However, this difference in payload size might get lost in the wash.bob wyman
Bob Wyman
September 19 2005 at 17:52
However, PubSub will still come up on top; Google doesn’t bother to compress their ATOM feeds.Ouch!smp
smp
September 19 2005 at 19:58