Aladdin Nassar from Microsoft’s Hotmail team recently presented some interesting network performance statistics at the Velocity 2010 conference. The whole presentation is certainly worth watching but particularly interesting was the following slide presented at the 10-minute mark on worldwide DNS and TCP performance from over 950 million data points with users that have the Bing Toolbar installed.
The data shows that on average, worldwide DNS performance for many users is between 400-800 milliseconds! Given all the recent advances with recursive DNS services from Neustar and Google, it’s shocking to find this level of performance still pervades a good portion of the Internet. If only these users knew about services like DNS Advantage, they could dramatically improve their web browsing experience.
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