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Performance Boost
With Speed Dial, Web pages load an average of 3 to 5 times faster. The more regularly you visit specific Web sites, the better the performance you will receive.
Here is an example of tests we ran with and without Speed Dial.
| Popular Web Sites |
*Before Propel® |
*With Propel |
How much Faster
with Propel? |
| Ebay |
11.65 seconds |
2.97 seconds |
3.92 X faster! |
| USA Today |
32.43 seconds |
3.77 seconds |
8.60 X faster! |
| Mapquest.com |
30.56 seconds |
5.01 seconds |
6.10 X faster! |
| Monster.com |
11.74 seconds |
3.04 seconds |
3.86 X faster! |
| CNN |
11.68 seconds |
2.26 seconds |
5.17 X faster! |
*Average time calculated based on loading the
home page. First time visit to a Web page loads on average 2 times faster.
Subsequent visits to the page load, on average,
3 times faster. |
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What Gets Accelerated
Most Web content will be accelerated, but there are certain exceptions:
 What will be accelerated |
 What will *not* be accelerated |
| All text - HTML, markup, and javascript |
Streaming media, and audio and video files |
| Most graphics & photos - including jpeg and gif
images |
Secure pages, such as those used for online banking and credit card forms and pages accessed over VPN |
| Most banner ads - including animated gif images and
Macromedia Flash content |
Files downloaded outside your browser using ftp |
| All browser-based emails |
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| All emails that contain images - even when read in a dedicated email program |
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| MP3 files, executables & other files - when downloaded
from within your web browser (depending on the quality of your connection). |
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