Yahoo! Mail Beta Slower Than Gmail?
On a decent dial-up connection of 45.2 kbps (Pacific Internet), without any other data transfers running in the background, loading on Mozilla Firefox:
Yahoo! Mail Beta — 12 seconds (this is far better than at other times)
Gmail ‘Beta’ — 7 seconds
Of course, this doesn’t take into account server loads and other factors. While the above ’statistics’ are not what you’d call ’scientific’, they can nicely sum up my general loading experience with these email services.
I used to think that Gmail was hostile to dial-up users, but with Yahoo! Mail Beta proving to be slower…oh well. Let’s see if Yahoo! Mail’s perfomance improves once it gets out of Beta.
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June 6th, 2006 at 3:00 am
I’m ok with Gmail even in the rare chances I need to use dialup (
get DSL already, will you? ). The longish wait is usually only the first time I load up the page. It’s all AJAXy goodness from that point.
As for Yahoo Mail, well, it’s been eons since I used that!
June 6th, 2006 at 10:39 am
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– I introduce you to the term “frotzed.”
Yea, I used mail clients before I finally switched to GMail. In the transition period I used my Yahoo account for all those email addresses for those offline forms (org infosheets, haha), but it never felt comfortable.
June 6th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Angelo, I do find Gmail a lot more intuitive to use than Yahoo! Mail (even the new ‘Beta’ version). That’s why most of my Yahoo!Groups are subscribed to Gmail rather than my Yahoo account, hehe.
Ia, thanks for that. I learn something new everyday.
Now I remember — I used to use Hotmail and EdsaMail!
June 9th, 2006 at 1:19 am
windows live mail is faster than yahoo mail beta
but among the three, gmail’s the fastest.
June 9th, 2006 at 5:01 am
Screw email. Let’s all get back to FIDOmail. The Internet’s overrated, anyway.
June 10th, 2006 at 2:51 am
Jepoy, thanks for the tip. Gmail does seem to be leading the pack lately, hehe.
Jangelo, screw email. Let’s get back to snail mail!
June 10th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
And I used Gmail’s forwarding feature (the SMTP one) to send e-mails from my own email@domain then my email@domain is simply a forwarder to my Gmail. Aside from the speed, it’s one thing I like about Gmail. I get to keep my email@domain while Gmail takes care of the space.
* Note email@domain = antispam
June 11th, 2006 at 1:12 am
Fleeb, the wonders of Gmail, eh? And the available email space just keeps growing, hehe…
May 5th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
[...] Don’t get me wrong — I love Gmail. I’d pick it over Yahoo! Mail Beta (another turtle) on any given day. Gmail has become the ‘nerve center’ of my home office communications, and as such, I just want my fast Gmail back! [...]