Hey guys, Spark is making improvements to our infrastructure, and we’d like some help from you guys to establish a set of websites that you feel currently aren’t performing as well as they could or should be.
This will help us create a baseline to measure against when we make a change to improve performance.
You can help us by suggesting websites that we watch. There are a few constraints and suggestions for the sites:
-Should be a webpage that a basic automated system can load (The front page of twitch.tv for example, but not XYZ stream on twitch).
-The more mainstream the page, the better (The more users that use it, the bigger an aggregate impact improving it will have).
-Pages that have bad performance 24*7 are far more interesting, especially if you know they work well on other ISPs.
-If everything you do is bad at peak times (8-11pmish), then please note that in your post. This is about changes to improve overall performance, not about troubleshooting individual connections – please contact the helpdesk for that.
-Sites that are hosted overseas are of far higher interest (Late edit)
Please post here rather than PM – we're keen to see if there is commonality across the sites people are having issues with.
Thanks very much for your help, we appreciate it!
Regards - Neil G
[edit: added last point about intl sites]