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Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

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Post by jamesaguilar »

piotrSikora wrote: post #26

This is really bad news for website owners... We'll see increased (sometimes by order of magnitude) number of page views and bandwidth usage, without increase in the number of real visitors. Same thing happened with DNS when Google enabled DNS pre-fetching in Chrome.

Seems like no major disaster came out of the dns thing. Anyway, this could be a benefit for many webmasters. Google has demonstrated in the past that faster load times mean more users stick with a result. Plus, I'd be really surprised if there were no way to disable it if it is really causing a problem.

Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

#42

Post by piotrSikora »

jamesaguilar wrote: post #41
piotrSikora wrote: post #26

This is really bad news for website owners... We'll see increased (sometimes by order of magnitude) number of page views and bandwidth usage, without increase in the number of real visitors. Same thing happened with DNS when Google enabled DNS pre-fetching in Chrome.

Seems like no major disaster came out of the dns thing. Anyway, this could be a benefit for many webmasters. Google has demonstrated in the past that faster load times mean more users stick with a result. Plus, I'd be really surprised if there were no way to disable it if it is really causing a problem.

Disaster? No. Unnecessary cost increase for people operating DNS servers? Yes.

Good example / explanation of the problem:

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/DNS-Prefetching-Implications.ht... (cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-3Lip30...)

Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

#44

Post by DavidSJ »

tga wrote: post #23

I currently disable DNS prefetching and "using web services to improve my browsing experience". This is yet another feature that will go on my black list. First and foremost, I think they are solving a problem nobody has, potentially for "my Chrome is faster than your Firefox" points. I do not mind waiting an extra 300ms for having a modicum of control over what my browser does. I don't know about others, but page lo…

I do not mind waiting an extra 300ms for having a modicum of control over what my browser does.

Your point is still legitimate, but the 1,100 ms (not 300 ms) in that photo which you refer to is the time to serve the search query results, not time to load the page you then click on, which usually takes a number of seconds more.

Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

#45

Post by ehsanu1 »

NaOH wrote: post #34
abraham wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Google's own words they only preload the top result if they are confident it is what you are looking for. If they pull it off there will be negligible amount of unused preloaded pages.

Shouldn't the top result inherently represent what Google thinks is what I want? Or is there some secondary "confidence" component to the presumed efficacy of a top result?

Possibly click-through rate, normalized using average click-through rate for the first result.

Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

#47

Post by tga »

DavidSJ wrote: post #44
tga wrote: post #23

I currently disable DNS prefetching and "using web services to improve my browsing experience". This is yet another feature that will go on my black list. First and foremost, I think they are solving a problem nobody has, potentially for "my Chrome is faster than your Firefox" points. I do not mind waiting an extra 300ms for having a modicum of control over what my browser does. I don't know about others, but page lo…

I do not mind waiting an extra 300ms for having a modicum of control over what my browser does. Your point is still legitimate, but the 1,100 ms (not 300 ms) in that photo which you refer to is the time to serve the search query results, not time to load the page you then click on, which usually takes a number of seconds more.

Point taken, I was going for dramatic effect there.

Rendering the page, after selecting the result, does take a lot longer (6s for something like the BBC home page here) but I still maintain that it's largely invisible and not something most users would complain about or even notice.

Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

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Post by DavidSJ »

tga wrote: post #47
DavidSJ wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not mind waiting an extra 300ms for having a modicum of control over what my browser does. Your point is still legitimate, but the 1,100 ms (not 300 ms) in that photo which you refer to is the time to serve the search query results, not time to load the page you then click on, which usually takes a number of seconds more.

Point taken, I was going for dramatic effect there. Rendering the page, after selecting the result, does take a lot longer (6s for something like the BBC home page here) but I still maintain that it's largely invisible and not something most users would complain about or even notice.

Speed is invisible before you have it, and once you have it.

It's when it gets taken away again that you notice.

Re: Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly

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Post by stellar678 »

NaOH wrote: post #34
abraham wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Google's own words they only preload the top result if they are confident it is what you are looking for. If they pull it off there will be negligible amount of unused preloaded pages.

Shouldn't the top result inherently represent what Google thinks is what I want? Or is there some secondary "confidence" component to the presumed efficacy of a top result?

I'd presume they could look at the difference between their confidence (relevance?) in the first and second results. If the difference is more than some threshold, bam preload the first.
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