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Https multiplied latency by three when opening websites compared to 10/15years ago where many websites were http. And also many websites include more tracking,

Https multiplied latency by three when opening websites compared to 10/15years ago where many websites were http. And also many websites include more tracking, for example Google search results used to directly send you to the result page. Now they first send you to Google so that they know you clicked but it also adds noticeable latency.

no1lives4ever 5y ago
With the advent of CDNs, edge routing and global hosting, things have actually gotten way better for those of us who use US based websites from the other side of the world. I am from India and back in 1990s the latency used to be huge because we had internet via satellite. Then we got internet via submarine cables but even with that latency is > 300ms for a server based in the US. Now in 2021, most popular websites use CDNs and have servers based out datacentres closer to India and the page load speed and latency has gone down significantly for us. But page bloat is a different matter, I still remember spending the greater part of a day (or maybe more0 downloading the MSIE 2.0 installer on a 1200bps dial up modem. Today page sizes > 1mb are common even on mobile sites.
xnx 5y ago
I'm pretty sure Google currently uses an async ping https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_ping.asp https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_ping.asp) instead of a redirect to log what's been clicked. It's been a very long time (if ever?) since they didn't have result click logging at all.
- sirk390 5y ago
  Indeed, I didn't know about the ping attribute. However, you will see they still do click tracking on the google image results for example. And if you check this article from 2013, you will see that they had it back then (I'm not sure when they removed it): https://chainsawonatireswing.com/2013/03/20/how-to-disable-googles-click-tracking-crapification-of-search-result-urls/ https://chainsawonatireswing.com/2013/03/20/how-to-disable-g...

no1lives4ever 5y ago

With the advent of CDNs, edge routing and global hosting, things have actually gotten way better for those of us who use US based websites from the other side of the world. I am from India and back in 1990s the latency used to be huge because we had internet via satellite. Then we got internet via submarine cables but even with that latency is > 300ms for a server based in the US. Now in 2021, most popular websites use CDNs and have servers based out datacentres closer to India and the page load speed and latency has gone down significantly for us. But page bloat is a different matter, I still remember spending the greater part of a day (or maybe more0 downloading the MSIE 2.0 installer on a 1200bps dial up modem. Today page sizes > 1mb are common even on mobile sites.

xnx 5y ago

I'm pretty sure Google currently uses an async ping https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_ping.asp https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_ping.asp) instead of a redirect to log what's been clicked. It's been a very long time (if ever?) since they didn't have result click logging at all.

sirk390 5y ago
Indeed, I didn't know about the ping attribute. However, you will see they still do click tracking on the google image results for example. And if you check this article from 2013, you will see that they had it back then (I'm not sure when they removed it): https://chainsawonatireswing.com/2013/03/20/how-to-disable-googles-click-tracking-crapification-of-search-result-urls/ https://chainsawonatireswing.com/2013/03/20/how-to-disable-g...