Recently I observed three websites, Google.com, Globovision.com, and Alibaba.com. Globovision and Alibaba are international sites. One from Venezuela (Globovision) and the other from China (Alibaba). My reasoning for selecting the two sites was because of the type of sites, one being news and the other a marketplace (like amazon.com), I assumed them to be high traffic sites like Google. The second reason was due to their distance, one being in the Western Hemisphere and the other in the Eastern Hemisphere, I was curious to observe if there would be any difference based on geo-location proximity. Observations from Google.com, were as follows; 13ms average for 4 packets sent and received. For Globovision.com, the average time 14ms for 4 packets send and received. Alibaba came in at an average of 78ms for 4 packets sent and received. For perspective, this would be a 400% increase in time to get a full range of response for a site on the Eastern Hemisphere. Of course, I would not consider this to be constant, many variables could apply. From a user experience standpoint, all requests completed, and the connection was made from all site requests. Indicating that packets sent and retrieved data as anticipated. The trace reports did show a few commonalities in all three searches. The first common observation was that the second hop timed out, indicating an issue, I’m wondering if that issue is my home server. My residence is always tough on network connections, even those visiting me make complaints about their cellphone service not working per normal. Oddly enough, both Google.com and Alibaba required 20 or more hops to establish a final connection, while Globovision hopped a total of 8 times. For Alibaba, there were 6 timeouts before eventually returning the site.
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