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Re:Why is the Internet so Slow? by dom0 on Friday June 23, 2017 @06:13AM (#14618099)
I don't get the downvotes; the slowness of most slow web pages is clearly caused by shitty JS.
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Re:Why is the Internet so Slow? by panic on Friday June 23, 2017 @09:28AM (#14618997)
The internet and the web aren't the same! They're measuring the time it takes to fetch an HTML resource, which doesn't involve JavaScript.
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Re:Why is the Internet so Slow? by c3833174 on Friday June 23, 2017 @10:36AM (#14619432)
The article is about latency, and websites relying dozens of sequential requests caused by scripts are certainly the most affected by latency.
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