Facebook Still the Fastest Social Network; LinkedIn and Twitter Close Behind

SmartBear Software company released its standard quarterly report for overall Web Performance for Social Networks. The company ranked each social media site by its speed and availability in the third quarter of 2011. By speed means how fast the platform loads on the Internet, and by availability means maintaining its presence on the Internet without crashing.

SmartBear’s AlertSite collected the findings by monitoring the home pages of the top five sites — Facebook, LinkedIn,YouTube, Twitter and MySpace — across 12 U.S.