And yet, developers still build sites that load 500kb of JS just to display 5kb of text.

We don’t need faster speeds, we need more reasonable and thoughtful site design. Most sites are ridiculously overengineered, and don’t need a lot of what has been stuffed into them.

My ISP used to advertise about fiber because their backend is fiber but residential connections are coax with DOCSIS whatever. One of the downsides is assymetric up/download speeds. Upload gets reduced to favour download and you get these whack ratios.

You know we use the internet to transfer way more than most websites right?

over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers).

This is the most American thing ever. Taking an official number (1,808km), converting it to customary units (1,123mi) rounding it (1,120mi) then converting it back again with rounding error.

I also have to laugh when someone takes a very rough estimate (around a hundred miles) and converts it to metric with 4 significant figures (160.9 km). Even 160 is too precise when talking about a distance of 80-120 miles. If the original number has 1 sigfig, the conversion should too, even if that feels way off.

And yet, developers still build sites that load 500kb of JS just to display 5kb of text.

We don’t need faster speeds, we need more reasonable and thoughtful site design. Most sites are ridiculously overengineered, and don’t need a lot of what has been stuffed into them.

Meanwhile in aus we get like 5 MB/s

;-;

They are more under engineered because of cost cutting and over designed by management because of ignorance and hubris. Developer:
“oh yeah this feature will take me a week to implement another week to make it performant and another week to pass QA” Manager: “Oh hell no just slap on this library into the project that I saw getting recommended on LonkedOn”

Here is a lightning fast website that gets the proper amount of engineering time because the goals of management and that of the development team align perfectly.

McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is the complete source for your plant with over 595,000 products. 98% of products ordered ship from stock and deliver same or next day.

(www.mcmaster.com)