| ▲ | welfare 2 days ago | |
As an engineering challenge, I love it. Other than that, I would've understood this notion better in the 90's when we were all on dialups. Maybe my perception is skewed growing up and seeing in real-time a picture loading on a website? Now, even with outdated hardware on an ok connection, even larger sites like WAPO (3MB) loads what I feel like instantly (within 5-10 seconds). If it loaded in 2 seconds or 1 second, I really don't know how that would impact my life in any way. As long as a site isn't sluggish while you browse around. | ||
| ▲ | MrMetric 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
My mobile phone's data connection isn't free. I'd prefer it not be wasted on sloppily-made websites. | ||
| ▲ | morcus 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Most of the time, and to a lot of people, it doesn't matter. I have a fast mobile data plan and fast home Internet. But even I have encountered the following circumstances where I wish sites were smaller: - on an underground subway with slow and spotty connection - on slow airplane WiFi - on slow hotel WiFi - on a slow mobile network while traveling internationally | ||