Thanks for that J.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by

Does the 2k refer to visitors, or dollars, ...?

I've done a little more monitoring of my own provider (who now claim to have fixed their performance problems).

I was able to add a friend's hosting provider to my monitoring list.

The results apply to monitoring since May 5 (when the problems were supposed to stop).

Percentage of queries taking more than 4 seconds
Google: 0%
My shared host: 7%
Another shared host: 0.4%

This is the kind of information I'm interested in - more than 4 seconds means probably losing a visitor.

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