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> Medium blog posts which take 10's of seconds Are you connecting to the internet using a potato?
by reitoei 11y ago
> Medium blog posts which take 10's of seconds
Are you connecting to the internet using a potato?
- nkrisc 11y agoNot everyone that might be interested in reading a Medium post lives in a country blessed with lightning-fast internet infrastructure. A large percentage of the world's population accesses the internet only through a phone. Even in here in the U.S. where I live there are people who fall into both the aforementioned categories.
- acdha 11y agoThis is why web performance needs to be something you actively and seriously measure: if you have a solid low-latency connection, you may have a completely different experience from someone with a high latency or packet loss connection which really amplifies the delay for each resource. This is compounded by developers almost always having the sites they work on cached and upgrading their hardware much faster than average, so it's easy to forget how painful all of that code is for e.g. an Android user on an average network when you mostly use an iPhone 6S over LTE / fiber. Here's Medium with a 10s load-time over a simulated cellular connection: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160315_FY_c1dc544bfe0add3272ad40596f5ef695/ http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160315_FY_c1dc544bfe0add32... 5s over a simulated mediocre (i.e. Comcast median) cable connection: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160315_HH_a6ed41e9bd2011835cc6828907d97cf2/ http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160315_HH_a6ed41e9bd201183...