Comment by lotsofpulp

2 years ago

> * Marketing/Sales asks engineers to add a feature flag to sleep N milliseconds for their research: "how slowing down impacts your revenue"

“Research”

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Jensson  2 years ago

They have done such research before, Google published this at a time when developers were all "100 ms more or less web load time doesn't matter". Since then webpages has gotten much more focused on performance.

https://blog.research.google/2009/06/speed-matters.html

  • kevin_thibedeau  2 years ago

    The dog slow load times of ad infested AMP pages would suggest otherwise.

    • Jensson  2 years ago

      The prevailing developer discussions going from "Load speed doesn't matter, stop complaining about useless stuff" to "load times matters, but here we choose to make it slow for other reasons" is a massive improvement though. Today speed is valued, it wasn't back then.

      There are many such tests being written about in blogs today. So now a developer can get time to optimize load times based on those blog posts while before managers would say it was worthless.

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