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The state of the web is very sad. Most people with a fiber connection don't even notice how slow it became. But when you are still on a 2Mbps connection, this
by jspdown 3y ago
The state of the web is very sad.
Most people with a fiber connection don't even notice how slow it became.
But when you are still on a 2Mbps connection, this is just plain horrible. I'm in this case, it's terribly painful. Because of this, I can't even consider not using an ad/tracker blocker.
Would love to see this test with Ublock origin enabled.
- bambax 3y ago> Would love to see this test with unblock origin enabled. Me too. I suspect most of this code is for user tracking and ad management.
- panstromek 3y agoTracking is a bit heavy, but from what I've looked at, the app code is usually much worse. I've looked at what Instagram and JIRA ship during the initial load and it's kinda crazy.
- deliriumchn 3y ago> But when you are still on a 2Mbps connection What happens when you use modern apps on iphone 3 or first nexus phone? I don't understand, do people think that with better, faster computers and network speed we should focus on smaller and smaller apps and websites?
- pavlov 3y agoYour iPhone CPU doesn't suddenly become an iPhone 3G CPU sometimes, but network availability does vary a lot. You may also one day find yourself on a flaky 3G connection needing access to some web app that first loads twenty megabytes of junk before showing the 1 kB of data you need, and then it's clearer what the problem is here.
- threatofrain 3y agoMost people with a fiber connection? I bet a lot of people with money don't have a fiber connection, certainly not most people here on HN.
- agos 3y agoread it as "of the people who have a fiber connection, most..."
- threatofrain 3y agoYeah, I'm saying the relevance of that statement is pretty low because most of us don't experience that, certainly not enough to tip the needle of JS culture.
- jspdown 3y agoI'm leaving in France, not off-grid and not very far from a big city. We still don't have fiber connection available yet. What I'm saying is that we are a lot in this situation, even in developed countries. Those that accept shipping 10mb bundle clearly forget that not everyone have the same connection they have in their office. To the point where the web is mostly unusable if you don't disable ads. I'm not against ads, but the cost is just to high for my day to day use of internet.
- rldjbpin 3y agonew raspberry pi compete with smartphones of the past, which then have comparable compute than servers of the yester years. moore's law has allowed developers to push more and act fast at the cost of being optimal. many such cases.