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awesome! it's a great tool to go back in time to check out our past websites full of blinking gifs and whatnot.

I didn't know that they also maintain the "HTTP Archive", showing website latency over time as well as some interesting live-statistics: http://httparchive.org/

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As far as I know, Internet Archive does not maintain "HTTP Archive" (http://httparchive.org/). HTTP Archive was founded by and is being maintained by Steve Souders (Chief Performance Officer at Fastly - http://www.fastly.com/). He's previously held titles at both Google ("Head Performance Engineer") and Yahoo!. He's also a co-founder of the popular web-development debug add-on Firebug.

Sources: http://httparchive.org/about.php and http://stevesouders.com/about.php

from OPs linked article:

  June 15th, 2011 – The HTTP Archive becomes part of the Internet Archive [0], adding data about the performance of websites to our collection of web site content.

[0] https://blog.archive.org/2011/06/15/http-archive-joins-with-...

Oh schucks, I completely missed that! Thanks for linking to it! It doesn't hurt to be wrong occationally, then you get to learn something.. :-)

Thanks, it's nice to see factual data backing trends in web design. :)

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