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Back in 2000, there was the "3 second rule": web pages should be fully loaded within 3 seconds. At the time it was very much optimization of image size as loadi
by athenot 4y ago
Back in 2000, there was the "3 second rule": web pages should be fully loaded within 3 seconds. At the time it was very much optimization of image size as loading was pretty much serial, with no async HTTP requests.
It saddens me that we have become so complacent; sites like Jira take 5 to 8 seconds to load a page that feels like it should be near instantaneous, and we're supposed to be OK with that. Under the hood, these sites are a spaghetti of nested API calls that probably make a lot of sense to the people owning the products but severely affect user experience.
- waboremo 4y agoYou're not supposed to be OK with that. You're supposed to make noise and complain. You're supposed to file bugs and create issues in their repos. You're supposed to switch companies when something isn't working anymore and they refuse to prioritize. But people don't.
- bobthepanda 4y agoHow many people even work at companies where the people purchasing enterprise software listen to their intended users at the company?
- waboremo 4y agoAnd now we got to the source of the problem. Wasn't that easy?
- Gracana 4y agoI would have killed for 3 second load times in those days. I suspect that was a highly aspirational guideline.