Page Weight Matters (2012)
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Page Weight Matters (2012)
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#2WOW! Faster load times and lighter code makes for a better user experience? (mindblown)
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#3WOW! Faster load times and lighter code makes for a better user experience? (mindblown)
whoosh! You missed the whole point.
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#4Comments from the last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4957992
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#5As a web dev I always have this in mind but the challenge is convincing your client who wants a video background. Maybe we need a media query that detects internet speed.
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#6This is a fascinating example of Simpson's Paradox:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
It also reminds me of the phenomenon, in customer service, whereby an increase in complaints can sometimes indicate success -- it means the product has gone from bad enough to be unnoticeable to good enough to be engaged with.
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#7If you have an engineering mind and care about such things - you care about complexity. Even if you don't - user experience matters to everyone.
Have you ever seen something completely insane and everyone around doesn't seem to recognize how awful it really is. That is the web of today. 60-80 requests? 1MB+ single pages?
Your functionality, I don't care if its Facebook - does not need that much. It is not necessary. When broadband came on the scene, everyone started to ignore it, just like GBs of memory made people forget about conservation.
The fact that there isn't a daily drumbeat about how bloated, how needlessly complex, how ridicuous most of the world's web appliactions of today really are - baffles me.
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#8WOW! Faster load times and lighter code makes for a better user experience? (mindblown)
whoosh! You missed the whole point.
That you can't always look at a single metric as a basis for success? This is rudimentary analytics here. Is there a single person who believes making client side code heavy is the way to go? Do people really think user experience should take a back seat to cool stuff on a site like YouTube?
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#9Nice to see this again - I've told this story to many of my web dev students. :-)
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#10Everyone's sometimes on spotty WiFi or foreign expensive 3G. I'm more inclined to trust fast-loading sites and apps.
I wonder what would happen if for example iOS decided to visually indicate page weight, kind of like how you can see which apps use the most energy.