Hello! I’m trying to ping some lemmy instances to understand which one is the faster, so I’m just using the ping command:
$ ping lemmy.ml
PING lemmy.ml (54.36.178.108) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from lemmy.ml (54.36.178.108): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=24.4 ms
ping lemmy.world
PING lemmy.world (135.181.143.230) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from static.230.143.181.135.clients.your-server.de (135.181.143.230): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=58.2 ms
but if I try with certain instances:
ping vlemmy.net
PING vlemmy.net (109.78.160.70) 56(84) bytes of data.
it just hangs there, forever. if I try to ctrl+C it, it displays
^C
--- vlemmy.net ping statistics ---
13 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 12267ms
why does this happens? I can perfectly visit vlemmy.net from my browser so I really can’t understand whay is this happening
Also every major browser has a tool for timing and seing how long a site and it’s components load. You could test it with that but even then; load times will vary slightly depending on what the instances have to load.
But probably a better way than pings ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Correct, especially with all the dynamic loading and rendering websites nowadays do measuring in a web browser is waaay better than doing ICMP/ping requests or even httping requests.
It depends on what you are trying to measure ofc but ICMP/ping does not tell you almost anything about how fast a website is.