Testing DuckDuckGo CDN performance via Cedexis Radar

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22 pointsprakash4 comments

Could you give a little more detail on how this works. The cedexis website mentions tags that need to be placed on a website. I'm assuming javascript recording the time it takes to load resources. Is this correct? Is there more to it?

You are correct, you need to add a javascript tag, which pulls the same object from multiple CDN's.

Please go to http://www.lemonde.fr/ -- do a view-source, search for "radar", and you will see our javascript. You can also use firebug to get a sense of what's going on.

Please send me an email if you need more info: prakash@cedexis.com

What kind of content was put in the CDN?

Depends on the type of website. The idea is to get a representative view of the type of content your website delivers. So, if you are into downloads of large movies, we could put a custom test object to suit those needs, if you are doing thumbnails, it would be different.

In this case it was a small http object.

Happy to answer any other questions you might have: prakash@cedexis.com

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