A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)
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Re: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)
#2Fortunately, most websites include megabytes of bullshit, so it's not remotely a concern for them :D.
Re: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)
#3And now try to load the same website over HTTPS
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#4I’d care about this if I was selling in India or Africa.
If I’m selling to cash cows in America or Europe it’s not an issue at all.
As long as you have >10mbps download across 90% of users I think it’s better to think about making money. Besides if you don’t know that lazy loading exists in 2025 fire yourself lol.
Re: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)
#5Or maybe we shouldn’t. A good experience doesnt have to load under 50ms, it is fine for it to take a second. 5G is common and people with slower connections accept longer waiting times. Optimizing is good but fixating isn’t.
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#6I’d care about this if I was selling in India or Africa. If I’m selling to cash cows in America or Europe it’s not an issue at all. As long as you have >10mbps download across 90% of users I think it’s better to think about making money. Besides if you don’t know that lazy loading exists in 2025 fire yourself lol.
It really depends on who your clients are and where they are.
https://www.mcmaster.com/ was found last year to be doing some real magic to make it load literally as fast as possible for the crapiest computers possible.
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#7The overlap of people that don’t know what TCP Slow Start is and those that should care about their website loading a few milliseconds faster is incredibly small. A startup should focus on, well, starting up, not performance; a corporation large enough to optimise speed on that level will have a team of experienced SREs that know over which detail to obsess.
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#8I’d care about this if I was selling in India or Africa. If I’m selling to cash cows in America or Europe it’s not an issue at all. As long as you have >10mbps download across 90% of users I think it’s better to think about making money. Besides if you don’t know that lazy loading exists in 2025 fire yourself lol.
I think you’d be surprised to learn that Indian mobile speeds are pretty fast, at 133 mbps median. Ranked 26th in the world (https://www.speedtest.net/global-index#mobile).
Re: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)
#9And now try to load the same website over HTTPS
Yeah I think this computation doesn’t work anymore once you factor in the tls handshake.
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#10Aside from latency, reducing ressources consumption to the minimum required should always be a concern if we intend to have a sustainable future. The environmental impact of our network is not negligible. Given the snarky comments here, we clearly have a long way to go.
EDIT: some reply missed my point, I am not claiming this particular optimization is the holy grail, only that I'd have liked for added benefit of reducing the energy consumption to be mentioned