Server location - Ping - Does it matter?

[adelante]

Hi I'm setting up a website/WAPsite for danish people (Denmark, Europe)

I usually use servers in US, but I just tried to enter some of the sites, and they feel slightly slower when you are in Denmark compared to local danish sites.

I tried to ping the domains, and the ping to the server in US is about 160-210 ms, and the ping to the servers in Denmark is 16-30 ms.

So, what does all this mean?? will it take 5 times longer to load a page if I place it on the american server? or will each document (file,pic) take 100 ms longer to get? 15 files x 100ms, that will be 1 second!

Right or wrong?

 

[audiopro]

As far as I know, the time to PING is the time taken to make the connection rather than the time taken to transfer the data. Transfer speeds seem to be more dependant on the amount of traffic on the servers being used rather than their physical location. How critical is the speed to your website?

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[adelante]

It was for a WAP page, you know via the cellular, and every split second counts on a phone, on the computer people are more patient, but on the phone people tend to cancel if nothing happends instantly! or is very slow

 

[audiopro]

I don't have much experience with WAP apps but I know the standard is to keep the pages as small as possible, file size rather than physical size. I can't see a few seconds delay being a problem.

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[adelante]

you mean miliseconds

Ok, so pinging is just got get the first attention from the server. After than it sends the files in the same tempo, pretty much.

Thanks