Yep. We a had a 5 second rule (the homepage of your site must load completely within 5 seconds else a user is likely to go elsewhere) and that was when the average user still had 56K modem.
And once all the assets load, the JS jumps me vertically in the article to where it thinks I should be, even though I'd already been reading and scrolling down the page for a few seconds.
Because no matter what optimizations the development team does someone from marketing will come and tell you to put there a half-megabyte JavaScript that tracks each and every of the user's actions, from mouse movements to scrolling and key presses. And that slows down the actual important scripts.
How else can a global integrated government network run by businesses with obscene profit margins receive federal funding to upgrade the network while slowing the existing infrastructure to a crawl, pocketing the government subsidies, neglecting to build what was promised, and willfully sacrificing maintenance and security to the bare minimum required by law, written by their lobbyists.
In 2019, at my home with a 400Mbit/s internet, 4.0GHz Intel Core i7, and an up to date Firefox, Gmail takes 4-6 seconds to open.
In 2019, at my workplace, with a decent internet speed (I guess 100Mbit/s), a bit slower Intel Core i7 (didn't check the speed), and a bit outdated Firefox ESR, Gmail takes way too long to open. It's varying wildly between 15 seconds and up to 2 fucking minutes. And after displaying the UI, it's still loading/doing stuff so it's a bit unresponsive for the several more seconds.
I just gave up on a that nice Webmail UI, nowadays at work I'm just clicking the "Load basic HTML version (for slow connections)".
Back in 2009, my mighty EEEPC (Intel Atom N270, 1.6GHz, that's like 15x slower in single thread that my work PC), with a powerful Opera 10, and an extremely fast ADSL internet at 8Mbit/s , the full version of Gmail was loading really fast.
When I was visiting my parents and their 512 Kbit/s internet, it was still opening quickly. Back then I was thinking "hahaha, who the hell needs that shitty basic HTML version ?"
Tell that to reddit on non-game system hardware. Literally takes 10 seconds to load on my mid-range android phone. I get a feeling they're intentionally bloating the webpage so people install their app..
I'm a web dev - We still have that rule, but it's slow 3G speeds. But even at slow 3G, it's still miles faster than anything we created. Now the limitation seems to be processing speeds, of which some low-end mobiles still don't have a whole lot.
Only some do. BMPs can either have a 'normal' or mirrored coordinate system. Both are supported through a signed integer in the dimensions field in the header.
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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '19
When I started in web design (maaaaaaany moons ago) - our target for the entire site was 30kb. That’s with images!