> But I go to DoorDash on the same device, and it takes 30s to load up a list of 50 items.

> And 2.5 minutes is waiting for it to render enough to give me the interface.

I have a very old MacBook Air (one of the painfully slow ones) that I use for development reference for what a slow machine looks like.

I just tried clicking around DoorDash and didn’t see anything nearly this bad. Not even close.

Every time there’s a Hacker News thread about how slow websites are, there are dozens of comments like this claiming extremely large latency numbers. I can’t tell how much of it is exaggeration for effect, or if some people have configurations with weird quirks that make them abnormally slow.

I suspect it’s a lot of this:

> on my 2008 laptop with 4 GB of RAM.

Sorry, but I don’t think it makes sense for companies to optimize their websites for computers that are nearly two decades old and don’t even have enough RAM to run a modern operating system.

The intersection between people who spend money on a expensive luxury service like food delivery to their door and people who won’t spend the cost of a couple DoorDash deliveries to upgrade from a 2008 laptop to a 2018 laptop in 2025 is negligibly small.