According to Alexa, average response times for some websites are: fast: 0.7 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=mit.edu 0.8 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=google.com 1.0 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=susning.nu 1.1 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=tu-berlin.de 1.1 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=stanford.edu average: 1.6 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=yahoo.com 1.9 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=wikipedia.org 2.0 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=slashdot.org 2.0 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=gutenberg.org 2.0 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=heise.de slow: 2.8 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=amazon.com 3.1 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=cnn.com 3.1 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=wired.com 3.4 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=nytimes.com tired: 4.8 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=techreview.com 5.6 seconds http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=wikimedia.org