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I've noticed recently (say - in the last few months) that Kagi seems slower here in Australia - especially image search.

Intermittently when searching (text) there is a 1-3 second delay before results are displayed.

When searching for images the increased load times are more pronounced and quite frustrating - so much so I've had to use another image search provider at times because I knew Kagi would take a long time to load.

Here is an example on a modern Macbook Pro with up to date Firefox and 1000Mbps internet connection with an ISP that has great peering locally and internationally.

  • Connected to: ASIA-SOUTHEAST Network latency: 113ms

Screen recording:

When looking at the network requests Firefox notes that the server is much slower than the recommended response time:

    Kuinox I ran this query again today, and it took again a significant time:
    79 relevant results in 10.32s. 50% unique Kagi results.

        Kagi being slow (saw around 10s self-reported latency to US-WEST) tonight I doubt has much to do with latency to GCP, posting anyway.

        Portland, OR metro, 97078

        • Vlad replied to this.

          kandersonus A screenshot from the browser capturing query and including network tab in inspector would be useful in these cases.

            I believe I caught the tail end of that production release which briefly caused performance degradation, wasn't able to reproduce for a screenshot after that was resolved.

            All good now, just figured I'd share latencies re: OP. 😊 Thank you, Vlad!

              For an update we are considering adding a new regional node in South America (Sao Paolo) and Australia (Sydney)

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                Vlad A Sydney or Melbourne node would be nice, image search results are 3-4+ seconds here in Australia at the moment.

                • Vlad replied to this.
                    19 days later

                    Image search is unfortunately still so slow I've found myself avoding using it and defaulting back to using Google Image search.

                      6 days later

                      sm Sydney node was aluanched on Thursday!

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                          Thanks for the update Vlad , image search doesn't appear any quicker though, the time before the first image loads in any image search is still the same around 2-3s.

                            a month later

                            For some reason, I can't complete the run in my region.
                            For me, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong would be good.

                              a month later

                              Hi! Kagi started to feel quite slow today. Search results take up to 3s to show up. (I'm in Europe)

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                                7 days later

                                @Vlad It got better, usually its now between 800ms - 900ms, which is still worse than when I stared using Kagi. Back then, I usually got <500ms responses.

                                I'm trying to convince my friend to use Kagi too, but he's a bit skeptical because it's not as fast as he expected.

                                Most recent Google Cloud Ping results:

                                • Vlad replied to this.

                                  naruto 800-900ms is expected and is still considered very fast. Kagi has much higher quality results and gets data from many more sources than when you started using it 🙂

                                      25 days later

                                      The search result is clearly slower than Google.
                                      It takes about 2.5 - 3.0 seconds to search for uncached data.

                                      Edit: I was looking at the data from another time.
                                      Kagi use event-stream(server send events) for display non-cached result.
                                      It seems that the display is actually completed during the https://kagi.com/socket/search(event-stream) response.

                                      /socket/search total response time is 2-3s.
                                      But, It actually takes 1-2s seconds to display search result.

                                      /search response example:

                                      IdTimeDisplay
                                      requestStart19:27:08.574Not Display
                                      responseStart19:27:09.645...
                                      event-stream:019:27:09.663...
                                      event-stream:119:27:09.673...
                                      event-stream:219:27:09.684...
                                      event-stream:319:27:09.685...
                                      event-stream:419:27:09.685Display
                                      event-stream:Close19:27:11.084Display
                                      responseEnd19:27:11.086Display

                                      Research Snippet:

                                      However, I have a feeling that the display is taking a long time because the white areas are displayed for a long time (1-2s).
                                      Also, The current search page requires 2-RTT to display the results, so the latency may be doubled.
                                      (/search page latency + /socket/search latency)

                                      Firefox: 2461ms

                                      Safari: 2540ms

                                      Google: 858ms

                                      From tokyo.

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