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Cool article, read the mercedes example. That stuff is super basic, why would they ship such a terrible product?
by davidjnelson 8y ago
Cool article, read the mercedes example. That stuff is super basic, why would they ship such a terrible product?
- clouddrover 8y agoThey've been too busy winning the F1 championship every year for the last five years.
- StavrosK 8y agoBut apparently not too busy to make a website about it.
- magicalhippo 8y agoMercedes got 500 folks employed just to make the F1 engine[1], I'm sure they can afford to hire someone to get a couple of websites made. That it's not better is probably because, does it need to be? [1]: https://www.mercedes-amg-hpp.com/about-us/ https://www.mercedes-amg-hpp.com/about-us/
- gxs 8y agoI think your comment is a lot more insightful than it might appear on the surface. Companies do a ton of market research, if there were some edge to optimizing your company’s site, I suspect there would have been 10 books on the subject by now. Truth is they don’t do it because they don’t need it. Plain and simple. What exactly would they get other than HNs approval? Your comment struck a cord with me because it’s a conversation I have had in IT millions of times. The real wisdom in any type of endeavor is knowing when it’s ok to cut a corner and when there is absolutely no room for compromise.
- stupidcar 8y agoThese kind of websites are just a brand box-ticking exercise. They're farmed off to a low-bidding contractor or agency who have no incentive to care about performance. So long as the site runs fast on the client's iMacs using office wifi that's good enough.