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The website felt slow and bloated performance-wise, despite the design being simple. YouTube feels like that now too.
by 40dslf 8y ago
The website felt slow and bloated performance-wise, despite the design being simple. YouTube feels like that now too.
- unilynx 8y agoAnd Google Cloud console. And Gsuite Admin. And Gmail. Well, maybe the latter isn't simple anymore
- TheHypnotist 8y agoThey seem to have lost sight on a big part of what made them attractive to begin with.
- k__ 8y agoIt's funny because Google has this guy, I think he's called Alex Russel, running around and telling the world which websites are too slow and how to improve web performance. Somehow the rest of Google seems to ignore him.
- NullPrefix 8y agoAll that botnet takes time to execute.
- OrgNet 8y agoGoogle wants your website to load fast or they'll de-rank you but they need all that javascript on their websites (it doesn't matter if it slows things down).
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoThis got worse over time. It used to be quite zippy when it first launched.
- eitland 8y agoSorry for that. I host it with write.as, and I guess they might have some scaling problems or something. It is a just a small (but very cool IMO) startup.
- bilalq 8y agoHey, I'm pretty sure the parent poster was referring to Google+, not the site you wrote on.
- eitland 8y agoThanks, good to know, but it still doesn't make sense to me :-)
- degenerate 8y ago"Google+ felt slow and bloated performance-wise, despite the design being simple" is what he means. And yes I agree. Due to the sliding/fading animations and other nonsense, it felt slow and sluggish. By today's standards it would probably feel fast. But for the time, it was the slowest thing Google had created.
- gipp 8y agoWhat feels slow in YT for you? I've never noticed myself being bothered by it.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoThe top question you should ask is what browser you use. If you use Chrome, and the parent uses Firefox, that's why. (Not because Firefox is slow, but because Google uses a lot of Chrome-specific hacks.)
- ninkendo 8y agoI use desktop Safari. When I watch a video from the main youtube page, then hit the back button, the video keeps playing for several seconds while a javascript progress bar at the top of the screen loads to take me to the main page. I hate it so. much. Usually I'm hitting the back button precisely because the video became annoying to me, or something else is happening where I don't want to hear it any more, and having to wait several seconds while the video still plays is awful.