It’s worrying, or perhaps just sad, that 766ms for an initial page load is considered especially noteworthy. Six thousand milliseconds is just awful.

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gl-prod 9 hours ago | parent [-]

But it feels snappy.

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gerdesj 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

When I was a lad, 30ms was considered the worst latency allowable for telephony unless you were dealing with satellite links, in which case you taught people to use a simple variety of radio protocol (over).

Nowadays with all our fancy crappy comms, 200+ms is considered normal. Ever noticed the lag on a Teams call?

	▲	rasz 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		OP is not talking ping but page load time. Depending on when you were a lad pages could take up to 30-60 second to load on a modem.

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danielheath 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It feels snappy _compared with most sites_.

That's the point!

It feels _very_ sluggish if I try it after spending some time using a windows 98 VM, or a library catalog from 1990.

	▲	jauco 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not if you were browsing the internet of that time using a 28k8 modem.