Comments on: Facebook tops one list of 'slow and inaccessible' social networks

Performance monitoring group WatchMouse tracked load time and error tallies for 104 social media sites, and has deemed Facebook the top culprit for poor performance. But it's just one survey, and results may be suspect.

[r3tard]

MySpace is by far the worst

I would like to know how this test was done. Was it only the home page?

I'm a software developer. I can tell you, MySpace is by far the slowest and most inaccessible social networking site I've been one.

It is magnitudes times worse than Fakebook.

Magnitudes = my 'scientific' opinion ;0)

[aka_tripleB]

RealPlayer

When I disabled the RealPlayer plug-in, it dramatically increased my overall surf speed and definately helped Facebook.

[gsmiller88]

No way is Facebook as bad as MySpace...

There is no possible way Facebook is 6 times more unreliable than
MySpace! I can't tell you how many error messages I have gotten
on MySpace.

[timber2005]

Facebook BELOW myspace?

That right there proves that the test is undeniably not accurate. Maybe it has to do with Facebook's AJAX usage but there is no way in all that it 0's and 1's that myspace came out near the top. I've SEEN errors on Myspace's frontpage... and maybe thats all the test ever got to load and since its just text, well its pretty darn reliable. Infact, seeing a error on myspace IS reliable in itself.

[spleendingo]

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[Sallie Goetsch]

Credibility of the source?

It strikes me that "WatchMouse" is not a name to provide an aura of credibility to the suits who usually pay big bucks for market research. And it seems from the responses to this article that the users of these networks don't find their results very credible, either. Not to mention the fact that if you take a look at their complete list of sites, the best performers seem to be the least popular sites. Could they be loading faster because their servers don't have to cope with as much traffic?

[S Barringer]

Facebook=Inaccessible! This says it all. I'm about to dump Facebook because when I want to post something to my group, it's suddenly non-functional and of no use in communicating to my friends. I have to go back to reliable email to get my message out. Piece of crap.