Well, whilst stats can lie:
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[powerbookg4:~]czar% traceroute www.wow-secrets.com
traceroute to wow-secrets.com (67.15.36.4), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 * * *
2 68.65.14.25 (68.65.14.25) 15.962 ms 16.097 ms 11.996 ms
3 g1-1.lasalle6509.buf.adelphia.net (68.65.14.69) 24.363 ms 13.791 ms 15.105 ms
4 68.168.225.5 (68.168.225.5) 14.734 ms 23.444 ms 20.393 ms
5 unk-426d0e3d.adelphiacom.net (66.109.14.61) 20.691 ms 27.797 ms 23.648 ms
6 g1-02-00-00.r0.buf00.adelphiacom.net (66.109.1.37) 21.322 ms 23.912 ms 23.121 ms
7 p3-01-01-00.n0.chi75.adelphiacom.net (66.109.0.217) 24.28 ms 28.725 ms 26.219 ms
8 p3-00-00-00.r0.chi75.adelphiacom.net (66.109.0.138) 54.403 ms 43.088 ms 42.998 ms
9 unk-426d031a.adelphiacom.net (66.109.3.26) 54.791 ms 41.19 ms 25.158 ms
10 ge-4-3-0.r00.chcgil06.us.bb.verio.net (206.223.119.12) 26.632 ms 29.702 ms 58.106 ms
11 p16-1-0-0.r01.chcgil06.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.77) 44.724 ms 42.801 ms 41.391 ms
12 p16-1-1-0.r21.dllstx09.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.85) 52.01 ms 56.421 ms 55.105 ms
13 p16-6-0-0.r02.hstntx01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.101) 58.243 ms 59.067 ms 81.511 ms
14 ge-6.######.hstntx01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.10.190) 59.521 ms 62.524 ms 57.475 ms
15 gphou-66-98-241-124.######.net (66.98.241.124) 58.651 ms 64.729 ms 58.949 ms
16 * * *
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So you might think 'aha! hop 15 is the problem' no, you have to know what you're looking @. This happens w/ depewwildcats.com, my domain, and pages load perfectly fine.
And the pings are similar:
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powerbookg4:~]czar% ping www.wow-secrets.com
PING wow-secrets.com (67.15.36.4): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 67.15.36.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=70.161 ms
64 bytes from 67.15.36.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=63.334 ms
64 bytes from 67.15.36.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=63.476 ms
64 bytes from 67.15.36.4: icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=75.884 ms
64 bytes from 67.15.36.4: icmp_seq=4 ttl=48 time=62.554 ms
64 bytes from 67.15.36.4: icmp_seq=5 ttl=48 time=62.023 ms
^C
--- wow-secrets.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 62.023/66.238/75.884 ms
[powerbookg4:~] czar% ping www.depewwildcats.com
PING depewwildcats.com (67.15.42.48): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 67.15.42.48: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=70.565 ms
64 bytes from 67.15.42.48: icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=84.32 ms
64 bytes from 67.15.42.48: icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=56.913 ms
^C
--- depewwildcats.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 56.913/70.599/84.32 ms
Yeah, ok, so not great pings, not bad, no dropped packets....
The real test though ishow fast the pages load, cause http can be slow and the above can be flying...
So I timed your pages... all times less than a second (good job compressing your graphics and keeping the pages light weight). If you're experiencing bad load times, its somewhere else other than the host http machine...What type of connection do you use? DUN, cable modem, t1? Where are you located, as noted, can be intermediate hop causing issues (or hops).
DUN connections especially have a tendency to act like there are intermittent service interruptions where they don't actually exist because a DUN connection gets saturated so easily the reply packets don't get back & connections time out. Then you refresh the browser and things load fast, of course, becuase part of the info is now cached from the partial previous load.
Such is the internet....
-Scott, way to long time internet user....