Digg Search Slowest Among Top Sites

I know many of us have felt the drag of a Digg search, but their is verifiable evidence that Digg is one of the slowest among the web2.0 and search giants. According to GrapPERF2.1, one of the leading resources on the web for tracking top site performance including response time, up-time, etc. is currently ranking DIGG search as one of the lowest speed quality averaging 5.1 seconds to complete a search.

This is fairly average for the frequented page on Digg whose worst performance in the last 50 hours was nearly a 20 second average wait time. Leading the list is Technorati-Mobile, whose averages are fractions of a second and the venerable Google 1-word search which remains the fastest response time for a search function.

If Digg is going to compete in the long-run, it will need to learn to feed content faster and more efficiently. While they have already tackled the issue of handling huge traffic numbers without crashing, they have not done so in a manner that gets users information quickly.

So, any ideas on how to optimize Digg?

No tags for this post.