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There's this article about a Google engineer who reduced the size of the player from over 1MB to less than 100KB. But the data showed that page load times incr
by vezycash 8y ago
There's this article about a Google engineer who reduced the size of the player from over 1MB to less than 100KB. But the data showed that page load times increased to 2 minutes instead of reducing.
They couldn't figure out why. They almost rolled back the change until someone figured out the reason. Millions of users with very slow internet couldn't even open YouTube before the change. Now, they could.
Tesla probably weren't tracking store visits, and test drives in relation to online purchases. And this missing info misled them.
http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters
Edit: Changed 20 minutes to 2 minutes. After rereading the article.
- mandeepj 8y agoCan't find this article. Please share if possible
- vezycash 8y agoTook over an hour of search (before ur request) - both Google and Bing were useless. Just crossed my mind that I may have upvoted it here on HN and voila! http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters
- mandeepj 8y agoThanks a lot. Also, thanks for updating your original comment. Your numbers were stuck in my head. After reading the article - I was like - It's not making sense. So, I reread your comment and saw the updated numbers :-)