Thursday, January 8, 2009

From the Google Index Ethernet of Digital Media in Google. 8:27:53 PM

Test Run on Feedburner Latency (Redist. Mediaburn RSS 2.0) Via Scripting News: Conclusion of the Feedburner latency test. It appears that it takes FB some amount of time to recognize a feed once its been registered, but that once it does, it's pretty close to perfect at caching a feed for 30 minutes before refreshing its copy from the original. A table that reports on the test. Notes on the test when it started are here. Here's the original feed and here's the Feedburner version. I looked for docs on how to ping Feedburner, but came up with confusing and contradictory instructions, none of which worked. They all got Java errors from the server. I tried pinging using their form and through pingomatic, neither of which had any effect on the latency. I tried adding a element to the feed, set it to 1 minute to see if that had any effect. I'll let you know. Update: Apparently Feedburner ignores <ttl>. Update: I turned the test off for now. [Scripting News] 7:26:13 PM