Digging through the archives, Christine found an old video comparison we created to compare page load times between this site and a number of others.

Back in 2010 sidepodcast.com fared well against the competition with a completion time of approximately three seconds. For fun we recreated the test to see if we have improved at all.

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Turns out technology has advanced rapidly in the past six years and Sidepodcast's homepage now loads in just 1.4 seconds. Not a bad improvement at all. Other sites have developed similarly with Autosport dropping from a massive 23 second load time down to nine and a half seconds today.

We should try the same experiment in another half decade or so. Maybe by then we can get the site to load before you even open it.