Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India

Re:Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like ... by grk on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @05:08PM (#10461147)

Your landing page takes 15 seconds to load on a simulated "Regular 3G" connection in Chrome. If you'd like I could walk you through fixing some of the most obvious problems, my contact info is in my profile.

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Re:Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like ... by taytus on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @06:05PM (#10461507)

I need help understanding why this is being down voted.

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Re:Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like ... by lamby on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @06:13PM (#10461548)

As you asked.. firstly because doesn't speak to the actual idea being put forward, merely implying that they are—at best—incompetent and at worst hypocritical. It then compounds this faux pas with a tender for work which seems a little galling.

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Re:Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like ... by mst on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @07:29PM (#10461920)

"I could walk you through" seems to me to be an offer to help, not a pitch for business.

It struck me as basically somebody saying "if you care about it for your app, I'd be happy to help you care about it for your website".

I feel like you're assuming bad faith, and the person confused as to why the comment was being downvoted was applying the principle of charity instead.

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Re:Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like ... by acdha on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @07:10PM (#10461834)

A cursory look shows that this is not an implication but a statement of fact:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/151027_FV_1ATV/1/details/

I didn't get the idea that grk was pitching consulting services but just to be clear that I have no interest in that market, here are the most obvious things:

1. Enable gzip transfer compression for static assets like Bootstrap

2. Compress the large images more aggressively and perhaps turn on progressive JPEG, although that latter step might be CPU-costly on mobile devices

3. Set cache headers on all static resources so regular users and anyone behind a caching proxy will avoid the full server RTT

4. If you use www.hike.in, optimize the redirect to go directly to get.hike.in instead of having a full RTT to get the intermediate hike.in redirect.

Beyond that, I'd look into a front-end diet – do you need so many images, can you lazy-load images or that 350KB of youtube, etc?

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Re:Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like ... by dspillett on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @06:00AM (#10463536)

I assume that it is because of the attempt to take the discussion offline when the information is probably relevant to the discussion and therefore relevant to multiple readers. Must discussion forums frown upon that.

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Re:Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like ... by merb on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:58AM (#10463367)

the most obvious problems are that he don't concat images/js/css.

No SSL, No HTTP2/PageSpeed. Html not concated.

No additional server in america. It sucks to connect from Germany. It's twice as fast to connect to Servers in America so ALWAYS have a US Region.

I hope their messenger is better.

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