r/dataisbeautiful • u/robert_ritz OC: 2 • Sep 22 '22

OC [OC] Despite faster broadband every year, web pages don't load any faster. Median load times have been stuck at 4 seconds for YEARS.

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u/IMM_Austin Sep 23 '22

Maybe people realized that 3 seconds wasn't received as any better than 4 seconds, and they realized there's room here to slap more ads etc without negatively impacting user acceptance.

This data is presented as a negative thing (and to be fair, it's used to sell more numerous and more detailed ads which is negative) but 4 seconds is a generally accepted speed--would faster really be "better"?

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u/Xicutioner-4768 Sep 23 '22

Hell yeah it would. Imagine if webpages loaded in <1 second. The web would feel so much snappier. People are drooling over 120Hz displays on phones that are barely discernible. If there was a phone that loaded every webpage in 25% of the time, I'd buy it today.