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Re: Web.dev by Google

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Post by joshfraser »

gowld wrote: post #118
logicallee wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it is in poor taste for Google to publish https://web.dev/ during the new desktop Gmail. >Google's web platform team has spent over a decade learning about user needs. Now we want to make it as easy as possible for you to master the defining standards of web development today. >Fast load times >Guarantee your site loads quickly to avoid user drop off. "Loading Gmail" >Network resilience >See consistent, relia…

A Gmail account has has 10+GB of data. Users for the most part don't want 10GB in browser local storage. Gmail's speed problems are in the backend, not the web UI.

That's not true. Pop open your console and watch the network tab for yourself. Slow websites are almost always due to frontend issues. Besides, Google has the ability to index the entire internet and return results in milliseconds. I'm guessing it's not my 10GB of email that's tripping them up.

Re: Web.dev by Google

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Post by guessmyname »

crazygringo wrote: post #121

Why am I getting: Error: 403 from Lighthouse API: Forbidden whenever I try to run the audit on any of my sites hosted on Digital Ocean? They all load normally in my browser... Anyone else having the same issue?

Even attempting to scan “www.google.com” returns a 403:

    curl -XPOST \
    -H "Accept: */*" \
    -H "Connection: keep-alive" \
    -H "Accept-Language: en-us" \
    -H "Origin: https://web.dev" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Referer: https://web.dev/measure" \
    -H "Host: lighthouse-dot-webdotdevsite.appspot.com" \
    -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/537.36" \
    --data-binary '{"url":"https://www.google.com","replace":true,"save":false}' \
    "https://lighthouse-dot-webdotdevsite.appspot.com/lh/newaudit"
    
    {"errors":"Error: 403 from Lighthouse API: Forbidden"}

Re: Web.dev by Google

#139

Post by omeid2 »

NelsonMinar wrote: post #51
iambateman wrote: post #21

This looks kinda cool. I have a hard time believing this is "for web developers" when most web developers used `.dev` for local development, which was broken because Google decided they wanted to own `.dev` for themselves. Bad taste in my mouth.

It might be time to let this one go.

Slowly boiling the whole web.

Re: Web.dev by Google

#140

Post by 05 »

komali2 wrote: post #86
crunchlibrarian wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When Gmail first came out I was amazed at how fast it was, so much faster than the native outlook client I used at the time, wow! How is that even possible in javascript! Now gmail is slower than most any other website I use regularly. Can't even refresh the inbox in less than three seconds. I've noticed the same slower by a bit every year pattern with google maps too. I'm afraid to click anything when I have a map o…

Not web dev related, but related to Google not focusing on performance: the latest Android release of Google Maps is actually non-functional on my Galaxy S7 because of how slow it is. It completely overloads RAM and crashes. Every time. Hilarious.

You should probably try their third world app version: Google Maps Go Edition. (See e.g. https://www.androidinfotech.com/2018/02/google-maps-go-editi...)
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