Comment 8 for bug 305630

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Andrew Bennetts (spiv) wrote : Re: [Bug 305630] Re: Please improve performance of launchpad.net

Ryan wrote:
> Initial GET request:
>
> This page:
> 23KB @ 4.8s
>
> Planet Ubuntu:
> 199KB @ 373ms

Note that https requires more network round trips to set up the SSL connection
(at least 2, IIRC). So network latency has a larger effect on https connections
than on http connections, and launchpad.net serves most things via https.