I just haven't had these problems. My phone is slow, at times, but that's more of a phone issue than a site issue.
The useful idiots are the first to be taken advantage of, and then eliminated, since they put up no resistance, yet think they're in on the game.
It means that the web page test was run from a server in Oregon. The page load time with empty browser cache is 3.585 seconds, and 2.365 seconds with the images and other cacheable bits of the page already in the cache. Sub 3 second pages is outstanding. Compare to CNN's home page: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140420_S1_PRP/
Again, though, Boardman is 180 miles from Portland, and is in the middle of nowhere. Boardman may as well be in the Ukraine, as far as those of us in the Portland area are concerned.
The network path to the S2 servers is roughly the same. It's not like the test was being done from somewhere really close to where the servers are.
It's an irrigated bombing range, owned by the military, which owns the internet. In a war, China/Russia will have to use an extra nuclear bomb to get each asset far from cities. http://binged.it/1r7PW4G
This article says that a local area network is the way to escape detection. Well duh, but you can't use the internet. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/us/us-promotes-network-to-foil-digital-spying.html?
Interesting. For me, I click on a link, wait for a minute, and then once it starts loading it loads quickly. Is that a problem with the "first byte time"?