How Important Is Load Speed?

[Livenomadic]

I know the 26 points of the holy grail lists Speed as "Pretty much the only thing" but I was wondering in 2004-5 will speed be so critical?

Take for example three CMS I looked into, Mambo, Articlelive, and MT.

MT loads much faster, but does that mean I should change over the MT JUST for the speed?

Mambo:
Connection RateDownload Time
14.4K 34.54 seconds
28.8K 17.37 seconds
33.6K 14.92 seconds
56K 9.03 seconds
ISDN 128K 2.90 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 0.43 seconds

Articlelive:
Connection RateDownload Time
14.4K 39.54 seconds
28.8K 19.87 seconds
33.6K 17.06 seconds
56K 10.32 seconds
ISDN 128K 3.30 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 0.47 seconds

Moveabletype 3.1:
Connection RateDownload Time
14.4K 6.87 seconds
28.8K 3.54 seconds
33.6K 3.06 seconds
56K 1.92 seconds
ISDN 128K 0.73 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps 0.25 seconds

[Leosghost]

Not all hosts will let you run movable type ..it's got a few security issues..before you think of changing make sure your host is OK with it ..

[mincklerstraat]

You'll get similar results to movabletype with a caching system (see your other thread) - probably you would be able to use jpcache on mambo, since mambo's pretty much in the nuke family. There's a tutorial on using jpcache with php-nuke on the phpcache site, but I think I like your choice of mambo over php-nuke. Don't know about articlelive.

If you don't cache, remember that a lot of your speed will have to do with what kind of blocks you are using if you use mambo. Frequently each block makes its own database queries.

Speed is very, very important. But if your site organization really doesn't work well with a faster product, a small speed sacrifice is worth it. It's easier to implement a caching solution later than it is to rearrange your database completely.