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I'm not really a social network person but the google+'s notifications are terrible slow compared with the facebook's notifications.

When I enter to the facebook's home page notifications are the first thing in load, pretty fast indeed.

But when I enter to the google+'s home page the time for retrieve the number of notifications are too damn high. Almost 10 seconds.

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The questions are:

  • Is this response time critical for google+?

  • Why does a company obsessed with fast applications (google chrome, google os, google search, etc...) make such a terrible mistake?

  • Is there something that I can use to speed up google+'s notifications?

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The last question isn't one we can answer here. It might be suitable for Web Applications, but probably won't get an answer there either. – ChrisF Sep 23 '11 at 7:56
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You seem to be implying that they are intentionally making it slow. If it is unintentional, then it is a technical issue and not something we could answer. – JohnGB Sep 23 '11 at 9:41
Google+'s bar is also loading on almost every Google service, meaning it's database hit is probably of lower priority than loading the current page, so I assume it's deliberately the last thing to load. – Ben Brocka♦ Sep 23 '11 at 10:28
Consider asking this on Quora instead. – Rahul♦ Sep 23 '11 at 10:58

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Google+ is indeed quite slow. And not only on the notification. However, Google+ is still in an early stage, I believe they even still consider it to be beta software. I am sure they are working on this.

Facebook is also a company obsessed with speed. Facebook is actually an example of how a web application can be very fast, and apart from that they also do lots of stuff to make it seem fast.

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