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Google plans to give slow websites a new badge of shame in Chrome

23 points by celliopia 7y ago

ddingus 7y ago
Slap that badge right on gmail then. It is terribly slow today, compared to it's better days. The app hides some, but not all of that slowness too. Finally, I am not sure we need Google doing these kinds of things. I pretty much do not want it. Whether a given site responds in a timely way is not Googles call, particularly when they are trying to own too much with AMP.
jjohansson 7y ago
Google does a really poor job of assessing page speed, especially for sites with a lot of client-side processing. Why would they think shaming sites is a good idea?
- monkeydreams 7y ago
  Because they hope that it will drive the badged web pages to AMP?
  - sourdoughness 7y ago
    Ding ding ding! We have a winner, ladies and gentlemen!
- Arnt 7y ago
  My guess: Google wants a thriving web (ie. with more activity on the web and less on facebook) and someone has argued successfully that slow speed on the web is an advantage for facebook.
cityzen 7y ago
Should they also give their cloud services a badge of shame? Love how google thinks they are the judge and jury of the internet yet they can’t go 6 months without a major disruption.
qwertox 7y ago
They could start right off with the Android Developer documentation website.
- thethirdone 7y ago
  It loads for me within 500ms. I don't think that is particularly slow.
  - qwertox 7y ago
    I envy you. Loading https://developer.android.com/reference/android/bluetooth/BluetoothGattCallback#onReadRemoteRssi(android.bluetooth.BluetoothGatt,%20int,%20int) https://developer.android.com/reference/android/bluetooth/Bl... takes about 13 seconds for me (until the desired topic is shown). And then the page is usually scrolled to either too little or too much. That is on a 100 mbit connection.
trcarney 7y ago
Maybe I'm being naive but couldn't this be good for users. For instance, if a page is taking forever to load and the slow badge comes up, the user would know its not a connection issue.
olliej 7y ago
How long until sites with non-amp content, non-google-analytics, and non-google ad providers get flagged as being slow, even when they’re demonstrably not?
moret1979 7y ago
Previously, on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21508339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21508339
vcoelho 7y ago
Well, these badges are going to appear in a lot of Wordpress websites.

23 points by celliopia 7y ago

Slap that badge right on gmail then. It is terribly slow today, compared to it's better days. The app hides some, but not all of that slowness too. Finally, I am not sure we need Google doing these kinds of things. I pretty much do not want it. Whether a given site responds in a timely way is not Googles call, particularly when they are trying to own too much with AMP.

jjohansson 7y ago

Google does a really poor job of assessing page speed, especially for sites with a lot of client-side processing. Why would they think shaming sites is a good idea?

monkeydreams 7y ago
Because they hope that it will drive the badged web pages to AMP?
- sourdoughness 7y ago
  Ding ding ding! We have a winner, ladies and gentlemen!
Arnt 7y ago
My guess: Google wants a thriving web (ie. with more activity on the web and less on facebook) and someone has argued successfully that slow speed on the web is an advantage for facebook.

cityzen 7y ago

Should they also give their cloud services a badge of shame? Love how google thinks they are the judge and jury of the internet yet they can’t go 6 months without a major disruption.

qwertox 7y ago

They could start right off with the Android Developer documentation website.

thethirdone 7y ago
It loads for me within 500ms. I don't think that is particularly slow.
- qwertox 7y ago
  I envy you. Loading https://developer.android.com/reference/android/bluetooth/BluetoothGattCallback#onReadRemoteRssi(android.bluetooth.BluetoothGatt,%20int,%20int) https://developer.android.com/reference/android/bluetooth/Bl... takes about 13 seconds for me (until the desired topic is shown). And then the page is usually scrolled to either too little or too much. That is on a 100 mbit connection.

trcarney 7y ago

Maybe I'm being naive but couldn't this be good for users. For instance, if a page is taking forever to load and the slow badge comes up, the user would know its not a connection issue.

olliej 7y ago

How long until sites with non-amp content, non-google-analytics, and non-google ad providers get flagged as being slow, even when they’re demonstrably not?

moret1979 7y ago

Previously, on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21508339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21508339

vcoelho 7y ago

Well, these badges are going to appear in a lot of Wordpress websites.