Wish this went further back so the massive jump resulting from broadband was visible.
Definitely a great example of how software always bloats to negative any increase in hardware.
it’s not just that, time to load has been constant since like 2000s despite speed and processing power increasing exponentially
You got a faster computer? Don’t worry I can fix that.
How much of that is ads and trackers?
Wirth’s Law states that software’s bloat outpaces hardware’s acceleration.
Would love to see this split by media/images/graphics/videos vs. code resources/scripts.
I remember the days when the goal was an under 100kb home page.
A lot of this really is just ads. Open a news website without an adblocker and literally 2/3 of the page is giant video ads that make the whole page stutter while scrolling. Add a billion popups like newsletters and adblock blockers and any website will be slow.
That is good news for me, because I hate it if a search engines punishes my site just because the main page is a megabyte or so big or I still use JPEGs instead of those annoying WebP images. In times of video streaming is it really a problem, if a website needs a few megabytes to load?
Website and game designers don’t even seem to attempt to manage resources
It’s all ads. The worst part is that the actual words are all ai slop placed as a premise to sucker you into loading the page so they can get ad money.
Something I’m not seeing discussed here all that much is the correlation to increased use of cloud computing resources vs on-prem alongside asynchronous calls.
I was working a full stack role on a project. There were tons of pages that would output a table, and there were dropdown menus containing filters for every column. Each filter involved an async call to dynamically populate its values. Each async call involved reaching a server hosted on an Azure VM which then called a separate Azure database. That VM call to the database would involve creating and closing a new connection with the DB every time. And since our clients were in BC and the specific Azure region we could use was in Toronto, each call had to go across the country.
Ya’ll, I’ve had tables take *minutes* to load. And they were paginated.
I told you JavaScript was a mistake.
Java script blockers help cut down on this. Browsing on my single core windows 7 machine is still tolerable thanks to that. Fuck DoubleClick
I work in the semiconductor industry. Our efforts have gifted humanity with abundant compute, memory, and bandwidth. And all you software engineers have squandered it and websites are slower to load than ever.
Bet if you did an in-depth study of what those resources are, it would be 1% the information you came to see, and 99% advertising related horse shit
I mean…
Do we care about this? Do we care that a website takes 3000 kilobytes (lol) to load in an era when even shitty phones have gigabytes of ram and storage, and single to triple digit Mbps?
I bet if we plotted this against average internet or cellular speeds, it would look a lot less dire.
Demands are increasing because resources are increasing, it’s how this always works.
Megabytes would have been a better unit for this.
I tried the free 10MB Wifi package on my last transatlantic flight. I managed to load cbc.com. Then I tried to open an article and it failed.
And that’s with extensive ad-blockers.
You can blame third party trackers, specially for serving ads or just copying your info from your visit.
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Wish this went further back so the massive jump resulting from broadband was visible.
Definitely a great example of how software always bloats to negative any increase in hardware.
it’s not just that, time to load has been constant since like 2000s despite speed and processing power increasing exponentially
You got a faster computer? Don’t worry I can fix that.
How much of that is ads and trackers?
Wirth’s Law states that software’s bloat outpaces hardware’s acceleration.
Would love to see this split by media/images/graphics/videos vs. code resources/scripts.
I remember the days when the goal was an under 100kb home page.
A lot of this really is just ads. Open a news website without an adblocker and literally 2/3 of the page is giant video ads that make the whole page stutter while scrolling. Add a billion popups like newsletters and adblock blockers and any website will be slow.
That is good news for me, because I hate it if a search engines punishes my site just because the main page is a megabyte or so big or I still use JPEGs instead of those annoying WebP images. In times of video streaming is it really a problem, if a website needs a few megabytes to load?
Website and game designers don’t even seem to attempt to manage resources
It’s all ads. The worst part is that the actual words are all ai slop placed as a premise to sucker you into loading the page so they can get ad money.
Something I’m not seeing discussed here all that much is the correlation to increased use of cloud computing resources vs on-prem alongside asynchronous calls.
I was working a full stack role on a project. There were tons of pages that would output a table, and there were dropdown menus containing filters for every column. Each filter involved an async call to dynamically populate its values. Each async call involved reaching a server hosted on an Azure VM which then called a separate Azure database. That VM call to the database would involve creating and closing a new connection with the DB every time. And since our clients were in BC and the specific Azure region we could use was in Toronto, each call had to go across the country.
Ya’ll, I’ve had tables take *minutes* to load. And they were paginated.
I told you JavaScript was a mistake.
Java script blockers help cut down on this. Browsing on my single core windows 7 machine is still tolerable thanks to that. Fuck DoubleClick
I work in the semiconductor industry. Our efforts have gifted humanity with abundant compute, memory, and bandwidth. And all you software engineers have squandered it and websites are slower to load than ever.
Bet if you did an in-depth study of what those resources are, it would be 1% the information you came to see, and 99% advertising related horse shit
I mean…
Do we care about this? Do we care that a website takes 3000 kilobytes (lol) to load in an era when even shitty phones have gigabytes of ram and storage, and single to triple digit Mbps?
I bet if we plotted this against average internet or cellular speeds, it would look a lot less dire.
Demands are increasing because resources are increasing, it’s how this always works.
Megabytes would have been a better unit for this.
I tried the free 10MB Wifi package on my last transatlantic flight. I managed to load cbc.com. Then I tried to open an article and it failed.
And that’s with extensive ad-blockers.
You can blame third party trackers, specially for serving ads or just copying your info from your visit.
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