Time to first byte - BIG difference if Google is turned off.

[norku]

Has anyone else noticed a big difference in the time to first byte with the following setting:

admincp - vBet - Translation Providers - Use Google ONLY (BETA) - no

If I set it to no I end up with a time to first byte of over 8secs. If I set it to yes the time goes down to 1.2secs.

I've tested this over the last hour and the results are consistent. All I'm doing is calling the forum page through webpagetest.org in the default language - no language switches.

admincp - vBet - Translation Providers - Use Google ONLY (BETA) - Application ID for Microsoft Translation API is correctly entered.

Also, with the above setting on 'no' the translations don't appear. I watched a French member replying to a post. Once he had saved the post I saw that the vbet box and flags appeared in the postbit but that the translated text was missing. I went back and set Use Google ONLY (BETA) to yes and voila! everything worked normally.

I'd be interested to see whether anyone else sees this problem on their board.