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Funny, I just went through a similar experience and had to tether off a Verizon connection for almost two weeks. I certainly felt the pain of a slow connection
by gpanders 6y ago
Funny, I just went through a similar experience and had to tether off a Verizon connection for almost two weeks.
I certainly felt the pain of a slow connection too and felt frustrated at how badly this affected the experience on so many sites.
Here’s an idea: web developers should test their sites on the slowest connection speed still commonly available (ie 3G) and make sure the experience is still acceptable. I know that webpagetest [1] allows you to do this and the results are illuminating.
[1]: https://www.webpagetest.org/ https://www.webpagetest.org/
- wlesieutre 6y agoNo idea if they're still doing this, but Facebook has done "2G Tuesdays" for just that reason https://engineering.fb.com/2015/10/27/networking-traffic/building-for-emerging-markets-the-story-behind-2g-tuesdays/ https://engineering.fb.com/2015/10/27/networking-traffic/bui...
- kaba0 6y agoConsidering that facebook managed to use up 800 MB of ram, and it requires a good 2-3 secs minimum to open a chat head, I honestly have a hard time believing they test by humans that shit of a UI in any shape or form, let alone in multiple ways (or care about the test results)