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0 pointsbelorn1y ago0 comments

> It is probably quite a bit slower though needing to have roundtrips at each stage of the resolution

The average load time for a website is 2.5 seconds. The added load time from running your own recursive resolver, which is only added the first time the site is loaded, would be around 50ms, or 2% increase load time.

DNS resolving is not a major aspect of a typical websites load time. If you want to speed things up, run a local proxy which local cached version of all popular web frameworks and fonts, and have it be be constantly populated by a script running in the background. That will save you much more than 2% on first load.

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rayhaanj1y ago· 1 in thread

I just did some measurements and am impressed on both fronts: DNS recursive resolution is faster than I anticipated, but also page load times for well optimised sites are also very fast (sub 0.5s). Here's some data:

Recursively resolve bbc.com: 18ms https://pastebin.com/d94f1Z7P Recursively resolve ethz.ch: 17ms https://pastebin.com/x6jSHgDn Recursively resolve admin.ch: 39ms: https://pastebin.com/DUTg8Rit

Page load in Firefox: bbc.com DOMContentLoaded: ~40ms, page loaded: ~300ms reuters.com DOMContentLoaded: ~200ms, page loaded: ~300ms google.com DOMContentLoaded: ~160ms, page loaded: ~290ms

So it's quite reasonable to do full recursive resolution, and you'll still benefit from caching after the first time it's loaded. One other idea I had but never looked into it was instead of throwing out entries after TTL expiry to just refresh it and keep it cached, no idea if BIND/Unbound can do that but you can probably build something with https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns to achieve that.

belornOP1y ago

The page you get when DOMContentLoaded is finished is a white page with no content. The page is only loaded in a very technical sense for sites like bbc.com.

Google page speed (https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-bbc-com/yxcpaqmphq?...) use two other terms. First Contentful Paint, that is the first point in the page load timeline where the user can see anything on the screen, and Largest Contentful Paint, the render time of the largest image, text block, or video visible in the viewport, relative to when the user first navigated to the page. For bbc.com, those sites around 1 second mark.

Other measuring aspect is Time to First Byte, which is the time between the request for a resource and when the first byte of a response begins to arrive. For bbc.com that is 300ms.

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