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Agreed with everything you said except > keeping in mind users don't care about data size, they care about latency. Users do care about data size since there
by noir_lord 9y ago
Agreed with everything you said except
> keeping in mind users don't care about data size, they care about latency.
Users do care about data size since there are still a lot of people on data limited contracts even in the UK which has a fairly healthy mobile market.
What people don't necessarily realise is the connection between the two, I'd quite like it if the mobile browsers had a running total of the total amount of data transferred in that tab on each new visit/refresh.
I'm a programmer and I still don't know which pages are heavy or not (given fixed bandwidth the time to interaction would be a clue but mobile internet latency is all over the map so you can't tell if it's a big site/page or just the mobile internet shitting the bed).
- steventhedev 9y agoYou are quite correct. Data caps do make users concerned with the amount of data transferred, but only post hoc, or as a proxy for latency. Thinking about it, there's got to be a plugin for firefox/chrome that show the data size of each page. For mobile, you can install firefox which allows you to install plugins (pretty much essential for blocking ads in mobile browsing).
- noir_lord 9y agoI use Chroma Android variant and it has the option to show inbound/outbound traffic on the status bar updated a few times per second (and finally battery state as an actual percentage) that stupid little battery picture is bloody useless (hmm, it's just below halfway, so around 45% I guess..checks 27%..bad UX). For me that is enough, if I load a page and see it sit at 200kb/s for more than a second or two I'll often nuke the page. I have 1Gb of data on my phone package (simply don't use mobile data much, I have unlimited fiber at home and the office).