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Users expect load times proportional to the content expected, if I am loading photoshop I don't expect it to be quick. However if I am loading Reddit, I expect

Users expect load times proportional to the content expected, if I am loading photoshop I don't expect it to be quick. However if I am loading Reddit, I expect it to be fast, and it seems the websites that should load the fastest are now loading the most 'non-essential' JS, leading to worse performance than peoples expectations. In my experience JS adds at most hundreds of miliseconds, and thats because people add dozens of marketing/tracking code that bog the site down. If you run ghostery / ublock the javascript eval time shrinks dramatically. Our web app has a very large Angular app and it still renders in under 200ms, but we don't have any "plugins" due to working with PHI.

reaperducer 6y ago
Users expect load times proportional to the content expected And how do you think that happened? It's not a chicken-and-egg problem. Web pages got fat, and users' expectations got lower. Lazy devs have trained people to expect the worst, not the best. The app ecosystem wouldn't be half the size it is if web pages worked as fast as native apps. If you run ghostery / ublock the javascript eval time shrinks dramatically. Are you going to be the one to explain to the marketing department why you put instructions for doing so at the top of each of your company's web pages?