(Entry was posted by Neil Cheesma on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 04/23/2017).

Time spent downloading a page

In Google Search Console - for a website that has been https for over a year (or longer) - why do two variations of the website show different download speeds in "Time spent downloading a page" They vary by about 150 ms for https:// and https://www (the latter is what the website resolves to)

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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

David Kutcher: Do you have a server redirect of www to naked (or inverse)? That extra server redirect on all resource calls...
Alan Bleiweiss: Is the time spent downloading the non www version longer than the www version?
Neil Cheesman: Okay.. I think I understand... so is this amount of difference `normal` or okay?
Alan Bleiweiss: Yeah it`s nothing to be concerned about.
Neil Cheesman: in fact the difference on the average is 130ms
David Kutcher: Except that depending on your closing that could be a lot of redirected calls to the server for no reason.
Alan Bleiweiss: Redirect delays that fast are actually a good thing. If it were a half second or slower, I`d start being a tiny bit concerned. It`s when a single redirect call takes a second or longer that I`d freak out.
Alan Bleiweiss: Yeah all internal links and sitemap links need to point to the correct version URLs, so that is something to check.