> Despite fully reloading the page, the HTML version of Gmail consumes fewer network resources (~70KiB) and takes less overall time to return to interaction. R

> Despite fully reloading the page, the HTML version of Gmail consumes fewer network resources (~70KiB) and takes less overall time to return to interaction. Reminds me of the article "Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out" [1]. It's really shocking that we've got technology that from an a priori standpoint has the capability of making web browsing faster, yet consistently due to poor development practices somehow it manages to make everything worse. [1] https://carter.sande.duodecima.technology/javascript-page-navigation/ https://carter.sande.duodecima.technology/javascript-page-na...