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I mean, HN isn’t an apples to apples comparison at all. I bet Google search (where I work) loads much faster when we serve 10 blue links to an older phone or IE
by mattnewton 7y ago
I mean, HN isn’t an apples to apples comparison at all. I bet Google search (where I work) loads much faster when we serve 10 blue links to an older phone or IE6, and that page is at least an order of magnitude more complex to assemble. When we serve you a live stock ticker, video results and carousel of relevant tweets though it’ll take a few more milliseconds to get that data.
My point isn’t that latency is the only thing worth optimizing for, it’s that you can spend your latency budget on something like feature detection, or, adding new features and better UX for newer browsers.
- manigandham 7y agoI should've been more specific. Other than the search page (which obviously is meant to be fast), the actual consumer apps are all becoming slower: Gmail, Maps, Youtube, Play, etc. This is a well-known complaint across many users with all sorts of devices and connections. I understand there are budgets and tradeoffs but the general sentiment is that Google is making the wrong decisions here.