# The initial page load

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-initial-page-load/17323>\
**Category:** Site feedback\
**Created:** [July 8, 2014, 2:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-initial-page-load/17323 "2014-07-08T02:37:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-initial-page-load/17323/4 "2014-07-08T20:26:54Z")

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I have a question about WebPageTest – what kind of CPU is it “simulating”? I find it odd that in [your discuss.samsaffron.com example](http://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=140708_9A_AXE-r%3A1-c%3A0&thumbSize=200&ival=100&end=visual) there’s this big pink block which I assume is browser rendering, CPU loading?

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/9/99960deae9c414085d0112e2e53961bc7874032e.png) 

On _my_ machine when I navigate to [http://discuss.samsaffron.com/](http://discuss.samsaffron.com/) I can barely get through

- one one thousand…
- two one thousand…

by the time I get to the middle of “two one thousand”, your site is loaded (and I haven’t been there in months, so cache had to be super cold.)

I know these are _relative_ numbers, but that seems like a big difference from “3.5 seconds” in practice. Seems like you can take the “real world” times WebPageTest reports and more than cut them in half to get.. _real_ real world times.

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