Dial up had an excuse, it was legitimately slow. A theoretical maximum of 56,000 bits per second, and you never really got that, that theoretical maximum involved on the fly compression and stuff like that. You were lucky to get 32k.
Now that we’re measuring connections in gigabits and can stream 4k video, a website that loads slowly is just badly designed.
Post Dial up stress disorder
If it takes longer than 5 seconds now it’s either the server crapping out or a million trackers trying to load. Before if I gave up in 5 seconds it was impatience, now it’s knowing there’s probably no reason to keep trying.
Back then if it took more then that to load it was because you picked on a piece of media not the homepage.
Nowadays it’s them making you download 300MB of JS so they can make images rotate in a gallery.
yeah that’s called wisdom.
we arose with baud measurement.
now, years later, more data is exchanged in visiting most sites than we know 90% isn’t needed for us to interact with the content. we see the poor programmatic considerations for the end user experience. we have paid for broadband experiences and can watch streaming 4k content, so when some annoying text with a few graphics takes long to load fuck no I don’t accept that.
My internet is shit and if the page doesn’t load in 5 seconds I still bail. Be efficient or fuck off.
Goddess forgive if you don’t have an adblocker since those ads will slow websites down to an absolute crawl.
“Press and hold to confirm you’re not a robot” no fuck off
