note 56051 deleted from function.header by victor

Note Submitter: angel at webmasterangel dot com ---- Note that a redirect always introduces a delay in the loading of a page. It can take several seconds for a browser just to follow the redirect and download the final http header for the page you are redirecting to. My site measures the response time of American web hosting providers. As an example, just downloading the http header for smallbusiness.yahoo.com from Miami or Seattle, USA, typically takes around 425 ms, which indicates that no redirect is used for their starting page. When accessing the same site from Brisbane in Australia, the header download time is slightly over 800 ms. Compare this with 1and1.com, that has a 900 ms header download time from Miami or Seattle, indicating that at least one redirect is involved. From Brisbane, it takes almost 2500 ms just to follow this redirect and download the final http header for 1and1.com. You may want to be very careful when using redirects in a site with an international audience. If you can use absolute links in the target page you may have several alternatives: - Use require() instead, which is much faster. - If you are always redirecting users from the root to a folder, e.g. from a.com/index.php to a.com/en/index.php, consider just copying the folder version of the file to the root.