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Which is pathetic and absolutely inexcusable. The internet and computers keep getting faster, and instead of the web getting MORE responsive, thanks to jackoff
by katastic 9y ago
Which is pathetic and absolutely inexcusable.
The internet and computers keep getting faster, and instead of the web getting MORE responsive, thanks to jackoff web developers, it's getting SLOWER and SLOWER.
I'll never forget the first day as a teenager that we had cable internet finally offered in our neighborhood. Going from 56K it was pure heaven. We're running a (P2-era) Celeron 333 MHz and pages loaded INSTANTLY.
Now, I sit there with a connection 6-10 times faster than my teenage connection, a computer with 8 cores running at almost 4 GHZ and I have to wait for a page to load.
I just checked. ~5 seconds to load the front page of CNN. 5 seconds for Facebook. 7 seconds for GMAIL. (Not like I need to check my e-mail often, eh!) All those numbers are 3x or higher on my laptop.
I actually still use the HTML version of gmail even on my desktop. Why? Because it loads in less than a second. (I just got a time-to-load-page extension, yep. 0.52 seconds verses 6.5 seconds.)
- Terr_ 9y agoI've taken to browsing with JS disabled by default (whitelisted for specific sites) and the speed/enjoyment trade-off is totally worth the occasional broken it oddly-laid-out page. This is especially true in a HN/Reddit context where most links will be to articles.