{"id":187975,"date":"2016-11-18T09:56:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T07:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=187975"},"modified":"2016-11-18T09:57:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T07:57:15","slug":"ipv4-vs-ipv6-performance-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/187975-ipv4-vs-ipv6-performance-comparison.html","title":{"rendered":"IPv4 vs IPv6 – Performance comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sucuri has published the results<\/a><\/strong> of performance tests it conducted to compare the response time of websites over\u00a0IPv4 and IPv6.<\/p>\n

It ran\u00a01,000 tests at\u00a0six locations – four in the US, two in the UK – with each location\u00a0tested with 22 domains. 264,000 tests were conducted in total.<\/p>\n

“We selected the top sites that support both IPv4 and IPv6 from multiple locations to identify which one performs better,” said Sucuri.<\/p>\n

“We used the curl utility to collect data for connect time and total time, as these metrics represent what users notice as part of their browsing experience.”<\/p>\n

To account for different sources of variability, it\u00a0used\u00a0a mixed-effects model.<\/p>\n

IPv4 is faster<\/h3>\n

Sucuri said the tests proved IPv4 is slightly faster than IPv6.<\/p>\n

However, the location can affect the speed of IPv4 and IPv6.<\/p>\n

The differences\u00a0are small, fractions of a second, which does not mean much for human browsing.<\/p>\n

“One interesting conclusion is that IPv6 seems to be slightly less stable compared to IPv4. It generates more outliers,” said Sucuri.<\/p>\n

“Perhaps the way IPv6 deals with additional headers in contrast to IPv4 may be influencing this difference.”<\/p>\n

This stability is observed most evidently on sucuri.net and cloudflare.com, which are both services that deal with web security.<\/p>\n

Graphs for each location are available on Sucuri’s site<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"sucuri-piv4-vs-ipv6-performance-comparison-summary-statistics\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now read:\u00a0The huge problem looming over South Africa\u2019s Internet<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sucuri has performed tests comparing the response time of websites over IPv4 and IPv6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,769,771,32820],"class_list":["post-187975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-ipv4","tag-ipv6","tag-sucuri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188001,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187975\/revisions\/188001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}