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OP was talking about a "neutral" speed index. You're talking about solving for every possible combination of user, ISP, and website. There's probably a reasonab
by SheinhardtWigCo 9y ago
OP was talking about a "neutral" speed index. You're talking about solving for every possible combination of user, ISP, and website. There's probably a reasonable middle ground in there somewhere.
- ucaetano 9y agoBut that's the point, it doesn't depend on a "neutral" speed index, it varies from website to website, ISP to ISP. If you're in Jakarta trying to access a certain website, if that website is available at the local CDN might make a bigger difference than which ISP or even which plan you're using. You could have a 1Gbps fiber connection from your ISP in Jakarta. If you're trying to access a website in Singapore the your ISP's international link is congested, that 1Gbps will be useless. OTOH, if you have a 10Mbps connection, and you're trying to access a website replicated at an Akamai CDN in your ISP's network, it will be way faster.
- joshmaker 9y agoIf we accept your argument that Google can't measure the speed of a webpage then wouldn't it also follow that Google can't know if the AMP version of a page is actually faster than the non-AMP version?
- ucaetano 9y ago> If we accept your argument that Google can't measure the speed of a webpage Correction: Google can't predict the speed of a random webpage to a random user around the world. But you can reasonably predict that pages hosted at widely available CDNs around the world will load faster on average than pages not available.
- jfrankamp 9y agoGoogle _can_ predict the speed of any webpage to any user. Google Analytics data is enough. Your whole thread is predicated on Google having that one product (crawler). They have everything.