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Former YouTube developer Chris Zacharias has an informative story of the effect of reducing the page size from 1200 KB to 98: >When we plotted the data geograp
by alecdbrooks 12y ago
Former YouTube developer Chris Zacharias has an informative story of the effect of reducing the page size from 1200 KB to 98:
>When we plotted the data geographically and compared it to our total numbers broken out by region, there was a disproportionate increase in traffic from places like Southeast Asia, South America, Africa, and even remote regions of Siberia... Large numbers of people who were previously unable to use YouTube before were suddenly able to.
Granted, that's a bigger leap than the one that made you cringe, but if it takes 2 minutes to load the new version in these areas (the number Zacharias gives), cutting 40 KB saves them 30 seconds.
The full article: http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters.