Google plans to give slow websites a new badge of shame in Chrome
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Re: Google plans to give slow websites a new badge of shame in Chrome
#2Slap that badge right on gmail then. It is terribly slow today, compared to it's better days.
The app hides some, but not all of that slowness too.
Finally, I am not sure we need Google doing these kinds of things. I pretty much do not want it.
Whether a given site responds in a timely way is not Googles call, particularly when they are trying to own too much with AMP.
Re: Google plans to give slow websites a new badge of shame in Chrome
#3Google does a really poor job of assessing page speed, especially for sites with a lot of client-side processing.
Why would they think shaming sites is a good idea?
Re: Google plans to give slow websites a new badge of shame in Chrome
#4Should they also give their cloud services a badge of shame? Love how google thinks they are the judge and jury of the internet yet they can’t go 6 months without a major disruption.
Re: Google plans to give slow websites a new badge of shame in Chrome
#5Google does a really poor job of assessing page speed, especially for sites with a lot of client-side processing. Why would they think shaming sites is a good idea?
Because they hope that it will drive the badged web pages to AMP?
Re: Google plans to give slow websites a new badge of shame in Chrome
#6They could start right off with the Android Developer documentation website.
Re: Google plans to give slow websites a new badge of shame in Chrome
#7They could start right off with the Android Developer documentation website.
It loads for me within 500ms. I don't think that is particularly slow.
Re: Google plans to give slow websites a new badge of shame in Chrome
#8Maybe I'm being naive but couldn't this be good for users. For instance, if a page is taking forever to load and the slow badge comes up, the user would know its not a connection issue.
Re: Google plans to give slow websites a new badge of shame in Chrome
#9How long until sites with non-amp content, non-google-analytics, and non-google ad providers get flagged as being slow, even when they’re demonstrably not?
Re: Google plans to give slow websites a new badge of shame in Chrome
#10Google does a really poor job of assessing page speed, especially for sites with a lot of client-side processing. Why would they think shaming sites is a good idea?
My guess: Google wants a thriving web (ie. with more activity on the web and less on facebook) and someone has argued successfully that slow speed on the web is an advantage for facebook.