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0 pointsmarcosdumay8mo ago0 comments

Well, half of a second is a small difference. So yeah, there will probably be better things to work on up to the point when you have people working exclusively on your site.

> This is why almost all applications and websites are slow and terrible these days.

But no, there are way more things broken on the web than lack of overoptimization.

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hinkley8mo ago

> half a second is a small difference

I don’t even know where to begin. Most of us are aiming for under a half second total for response times. Are you working on web applications at all?

marcosdumayOP8mo ago

> Most of us are aiming for under a half second total for response times.

I know people working on that exist. "Most of us" is absolutely not, if they were so many, the web wouldn't be like it's now.

Anyway, most people working towards instantaneous response aren't optimizing the very-high latency case where the article may eventually get a 0.5s slowdown. And almost nobody gets to the extremely low-gain kinds of optimizations there.

Mawr8mo ago

"More than 10 years ago, Amazon found that every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales. In 2006, Google found an extra .5 seconds in search page generation time dropped traffic by 20%."

marcosdumayOP8mo ago

Yet, the Amazon home page HTML is about 10 times larger than that limit.

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0 pointsmarcosdumay8mo ago0 comments

Well, half of a second is a small difference. So yeah, there will probably be better things to work on up to the point when you have people working exclusively on your site.

> This is why almost all applications and websites are slow and terrible these days.

But no, there are way more things broken on the web than lack of overoptimization.

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hinkley8mo ago

> half a second is a small difference

I don’t even know where to begin. Most of us are aiming for under a half second total for response times. Are you working on web applications at all?

marcosdumayOP8mo ago

> Most of us are aiming for under a half second total for response times.

I know people working on that exist. "Most of us" is absolutely not, if they were so many, the web wouldn't be like it's now.

Mawr8mo ago

"More than 10 years ago, Amazon found that every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales. In 2006, Google found an extra .5 seconds in search page generation time dropped traffic by 20%."

marcosdumayOP8mo ago

Yet, the Amazon home page HTML is about 10 times larger than that limit.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse