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The Web Is Getting Slower, At Least in How We All Experience It
One thing you can always rely on technology to do is speed things up. Everything, from processors to phones to networks gets faster. Heck, there are actual laws that define this phenomenon. So when at a recent Akamai analyst event a speaker made the offhand comment that the Web is getting slower, it pretty much…
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Of course things are going to feel slow with a majority of sites having a 3mb theme with 16mb worth of images, 13 tracking codes, 3 advertising blocks, an autoload video on the page, and 16 social sharing buttons that load externally. Combine that with a beyond terrible infrastructure and you're just asking for things to feel slow.
Point made. Webmasters think that because the internet is faster they can add more shit to their sites and get away with it. Sadly, people notice this and look for much faster alternatives.
It's funny that such an article is on Wired.com which has everything you just described.
I think that US is having the biggest issues with connectivity, because your ISP are bending you over whenever they get the chance.