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Old Reddit only 8 points better: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2F&tab=mobile https://developers.googl

by css 6y ago

Old Reddit only 8 points better: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2F&tab=mobile https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=... In fact, old Reddit actually has a worse time-to-interactive score and a lot more DOM elements: 1.6k for new Reddit and 2.3k for old.

ancarda 6y ago
If you click on the desktop tab, you'll see new Reddit is 48 whereas old Reddit is 80 - a massive improvement I think old Reddit not being mobile friendly is a big reason why its score is so low
- threatofrain 6y ago
  https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/ would be Reddit's old mobile site.
  - skavi 6y ago
    that’s really quite nice actually. Definitely feels much faster than the current mobile site. If only because it doesn’t have the app pop-up.
  - dublinben 6y ago
    Their original mobile site (now inaccessible) from more than ten years ago was even more minimal. The original m.reddit.com was replaced with the compact version (i.reddit.com) you've linked, and subsequently replaced by their awful current mobile site. https://web.archive.org/web/20090116041704/http://m.reddit.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20090116041704/http://m.reddit.c...
    - jtvjan 6y ago
      Still accessible here: https://www.reddit.com/.mobile https://www.reddit.com/.mobile
rozab 6y ago
Unfortunately I can't see the results, and it's not working on archive.org either. What exactly does time-to-interactive mean? On my actual mobile (firefox with ublock), new reddit takes about 6-7 seconds to load in the actual content. On clean desktop chrome it takes 2-3 seconds, and on chrome pretending to be a mobile it takes 4 seconds (!). Old reddit takes less than a second. It seems like the metrics here just have no bearing on reality.
7952 6y ago
I think that I blame the website for being slow when I see a Javascript loading screen. But when the browser is just waiting I blame the slowness of the connection. Maybe, that is why the speeds feel so different even if they are quite similar.
JohnBooty 6y ago
old Reddit actually has a worse time-to-interactive score It's an interesting example of a good metric that is perhaps not the right metric for a particular application. For many/most users, I'm sure Reddit usage is something like 95% reading / 5% "interaction", or perhaps even closer to a 100/0 split. So "time until I can actually read what I clicked on" is probably the right primary user satisfaction metric...
whywhywhywhy 6y ago
This makes me question the whole test. Anyone can see the opposite is true in actual use and can feel even high end machines choke loading new Reddit.

by css 6y ago

ancarda 6y ago

If you click on the desktop tab, you'll see new Reddit is 48 whereas old Reddit is 80 - a massive improvement I think old Reddit not being mobile friendly is a big reason why its score is so low

threatofrain 6y ago
https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/ would be Reddit's old mobile site.
- skavi 6y ago
  that’s really quite nice actually. Definitely feels much faster than the current mobile site. If only because it doesn’t have the app pop-up.
- dublinben 6y ago
  Their original mobile site (now inaccessible) from more than ten years ago was even more minimal. The original m.reddit.com was replaced with the compact version (i.reddit.com) you've linked, and subsequently replaced by their awful current mobile site. https://web.archive.org/web/20090116041704/http://m.reddit.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20090116041704/http://m.reddit.c...
  - jtvjan 6y ago
    Still accessible here: https://www.reddit.com/.mobile https://www.reddit.com/.mobile

rozab 6y ago

Unfortunately I can't see the results, and it's not working on archive.org either. What exactly does time-to-interactive mean? On my actual mobile (firefox with ublock), new reddit takes about 6-7 seconds to load in the actual content. On clean desktop chrome it takes 2-3 seconds, and on chrome pretending to be a mobile it takes 4 seconds (!). Old reddit takes less than a second. It seems like the metrics here just have no bearing on reality.

7952 6y ago

I think that I blame the website for being slow when I see a Javascript loading screen. But when the browser is just waiting I blame the slowness of the connection. Maybe, that is why the speeds feel so different even if they are quite similar.

JohnBooty 6y ago

old Reddit actually has a worse time-to-interactive score It's an interesting example of a good metric that is perhaps not the right metric for a particular application. For many/most users, I'm sure Reddit usage is something like 95% reading / 5% "interaction", or perhaps even closer to a 100/0 split. So "time until I can actually read what I clicked on" is probably the right primary user satisfaction metric...

whywhywhywhy 6y ago

This makes me question the whole test. Anyone can see the opposite is true in actual use and can feel even high end machines choke loading new Reddit.