What Makes the Web Slow? Really Slow?
January 28, 2021
I read “We Rendered a Million Web Pages to Find Out What Makes the Web Slow.” My first reaction was the East Coast Internet outage which ruined some Type A workers’ day. I can hear the howls, “Mommy, I can’t attend class, our Internet is broken again.”
Here’s a passage from the “Rendered a Million Web Pages” which I found interesting:
Internet commentators are fond of saying that correlation does not equal causation, and indeed we can’t get at causality directly with these models. Great caution should be exercised when interpreting the coefficients, particularly because a lot confounding factors may be involved. However, there’s certainly enough there to make you go “hmm”.
Yep, I went “hmm.” But for these reasons:
- Ad load times slow down my Web experiences. Don’t you love those white page hung ads on the YouTube or the wonky baloney on the Daily Mail?
- How about crappy Internet service providers?
- Are you thrilled with cache misses?
- Pages stuffed full of trackers, bugs, codes, and spammy SEO stuff.
Hmm, indeed.
Stephen E Arnold, January 28, 2021
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