Comment by bbarnett
2 years ago
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.
2 years ago
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.
Of course it always mattered. But at the time lots of people argued it didn't matter, which is why the headline is "Speed matters". You thinking it did matter at the time doesn't mean the general community thought so.
But the general community did care about speed. Everyone worked towards small load times, optimized (for example) image size for optimal load time, everyone cared.
Whomever didn't care was weird.