The Banned and the Blocked
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 7:02 am
Baidu has the best possible rating. The majority of the country appears in dark green, which means the website loads in a second or less in these areas,
However, the loading times are slightly slower in Yunnan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia. This demonstrates that even a prominent website like Baidu still doesn’t have a perfect record across all of China.
So an important takeaway—even if your website is saudi arabia number hosted in China, this doesn’t necessarily guarantee its loading speed.
hat if your website is blocked in China?
Western businesses have come to fear the “Great Chinese Firewall,” and several big websites—Facebook, Wikipedia, and Google (to name just a few)—cannot be accessed within China without a virtual private network (VPN).
Take a look at these results for Google.
Google
When I search for Google, no results emerge except for Hong Kong and Taiwan. These two locations are not behind the Great Firewall, so they appear in dark green.
If you’re in one of the following industries, your website is probably going to be blocked:
Crypto
Porn
Politics
Gambling
VPNs
No Two Days Are the Same
Website loading speeds change constantly depending on a number of external factors.
If you watch my YouTube video on the same topic, on that day you’ll see
Baidu had a red rating in Tibet, and
Google was loading (or loaded) very slowly in Beijing.
These results are only a few days apart, and you can already see the differences in loading times across the country for each website.
What About Your Website?
And there you have it, 17ce.com is a great tool for checking your website’s loading speed in China.
Give it a try, and let me know how quickly your website is loading across the country.
If you’re pleasantly surprised or not doing as well as you expected (or would have hoped), we’d love to hear from you in the comments section below.
2 Comments.
Paul S
2022-09-29 am7:50
Are you sure that 17ce gives a valid measure of page loading time?
My understanding is that it only measures the “time to first byte” (TTFB) which is the initial server response, not the final page loading.
If you look at a page load “waterfall” there are other factors that need to be considered, like how long scripts, images and other assets take to load.
However, the loading times are slightly slower in Yunnan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia. This demonstrates that even a prominent website like Baidu still doesn’t have a perfect record across all of China.
So an important takeaway—even if your website is saudi arabia number hosted in China, this doesn’t necessarily guarantee its loading speed.
hat if your website is blocked in China?
Western businesses have come to fear the “Great Chinese Firewall,” and several big websites—Facebook, Wikipedia, and Google (to name just a few)—cannot be accessed within China without a virtual private network (VPN).
Take a look at these results for Google.
When I search for Google, no results emerge except for Hong Kong and Taiwan. These two locations are not behind the Great Firewall, so they appear in dark green.
If you’re in one of the following industries, your website is probably going to be blocked:
Crypto
Porn
Politics
Gambling
VPNs
No Two Days Are the Same
Website loading speeds change constantly depending on a number of external factors.
If you watch my YouTube video on the same topic, on that day you’ll see
Baidu had a red rating in Tibet, and
Google was loading (or loaded) very slowly in Beijing.
These results are only a few days apart, and you can already see the differences in loading times across the country for each website.
What About Your Website?
And there you have it, 17ce.com is a great tool for checking your website’s loading speed in China.
Give it a try, and let me know how quickly your website is loading across the country.
If you’re pleasantly surprised or not doing as well as you expected (or would have hoped), we’d love to hear from you in the comments section below.
2 Comments.
Paul S
2022-09-29 am7:50
Are you sure that 17ce gives a valid measure of page loading time?
My understanding is that it only measures the “time to first byte” (TTFB) which is the initial server response, not the final page loading.
If you look at a page load “waterfall” there are other factors that need to be considered, like how long scripts, images and other assets take to load.