Kagi slow? Post here!

Vlad

Thanks everyone for posting. We are looking into opportunities to improve.

matusfaro

From Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Kagi is very slow, 2-3 second wait for search result.

Vlad

matusfaro It looks like you are using a VPN? No way Zurich is going to be the closest node?

matusfaro

Vlad Sorry I didn't get a notification you replied.

I am not sure what happened there, I may have forgotten my VPN on. Here is the result again:

From 43.228.131.63:

Vlad

matusfaro Thanks. Is Kagi still slow for you after the update today?

Nition

New Zealand. I do find Kagi significantly slower than Google, though it's not painfully slow.

Vlad

Nition Would you be able to post a side by side video of a query in Kagi and Google for you?

Nition

I couldn't think of an easy way to start both searches at exactly the same time, but you can see that although I start the Kagi search first, it doesn't show results until just after the Google search is done. Both are pretty fast though!

For the record I have a 300Mbps down/100Mbps up connection.

Vlad

Nition Thank you this is very useful... Can you share a screenshot of your network traffic tab in the browser inspector, specifically of the main Kagi request?

Nition

Hi, it's a bit different each time, but this seems fairly representative:

Vlad

Nition This shows it took about 2.2 seconds to show results. That is a lot. We will look more into it.

janpeeters

Fast enough here. But compared to Startpage, Google and DuckDuckGo still a bit slower.

Vlad

janpeeters Can you post a side by side video to illustrate that?

argueaxes

Taipei, Taiwan

sm

Kagi pages load quickly - but results take 3+ seconds to appear.

It looks like perhaps the page doesn't lazy load results and some take longer than others to return.

Location: Melbourne, Australia
Browser: Firefox 100 b7, also the same on Chrome 100.0
OS: macOS 12.3.1
Hardware: Macbook Pro M1 Pro (2021)
Internet: 1000Mbit down, 50Mbit up (and an ISP with good peering/routing)

Vlad

sm Thanks, can you post a video of typical result load for you with network tab open? And also one using https://kagi.com/html

sm

Vlad sure thing - I'll do that tomorrow when I'm on my laptop again, in the mean time here's a video of similar performance in Safari on my iPhone 12 Pro:

sm

Vlad here's two videos, one of a couple of typical load times (2-3.5s) and one of the html load times which is a lot quicker.

Normal:
HTML:

(The forum wouldn't let me upload them)

liamstevens

Hey @sm , we have made a number of significant changes to how our services are advertised and how users are routed to them over the past week. I'm also in Australia, but haven't encountered any issues resembling this in either of the locations I'm based out of. I've reviewed the specific entries for these requests in our logs too, and while it was directed to the right endpoint for Melbourne (our SEA endpoint), there was a lot of latency in the request itself.

You also seem to be accessing over an IPv6 address. Just confirming that is expected to be the case and you haven't ended up on a failover connection?

sm

liamstevens howdy! Yes that's correct - Melbourne and IPv6.

I'm with the ISP Aussie Broadband (AS4764), however - I noticed similar performance when using 5g on my phone (Telstra Mobile):

If there's any tests you'd like me to run I'm happy to do so.

It feels like JavaScript especially since the pure HTML version of the site is very quick.

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