Comment by 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.
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.
The dog slow load times of ad infested AMP pages would suggest otherwise.
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.
Untrue. I optimized pages pre-2000, and it had always mattered.
It's always, always mattered. If anything, people care less today, with the entire ridiculous 100 loads per page.
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AMP pages load way, way faster IME
Not as fast as with 90% of JS blocked. That's how the web was supposed to work, not downloading 50 MiB on every hyperlink.