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Why are you valuing the time of a developer so much more highly than the time of all the users of the web page? Page load time affects every user; additional f
by tuatoru 6y ago
Why are you valuing the time of a developer so much more highly than the time of all the users of the web page?
Page load time affects every user; additional features only improve life for a few of them.
- jtsiskin 6y agoMore features, which the user usually prefers over speed.
- tuatoru 6y agoNot from my observation. Most people seem to get more confused and hesitant when pages are loaded with more features, most of which are irrelevant to their neeeds of the moment. (Of course flat design makes this hesitation worse.) And theory talks about "cognitive overload" and "choice paralysis".
- alkonaut 6y agoROI might say a developer should build a different product instead of speeding up the old one. Or perhaps it’s better to get 200 less satisfied customers than make the 100 existing ones more satisfied. That can be done by using the resources for marketing, features, SEO. In the end, when you are optimizing there is always something you are not doing with that time. Whether hundreds of users value the time they gain by not waiting for page loads isn’t relevant either unless it actually converts to more sales (or some other tangible metric like growth).