Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everyt...
by SquareWheel on Saturday January 12, 2019 @10:03PM
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Eight seconds may seem exceptional on broadband internet, but it is not elsewhere in the world. I recently worked with a website in Brazil that could take over a minute to load over 3G.
It only looks malicious because you're looking for it to be malicious.
Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everyt...
by Aaargh20318 on Sunday January 13, 2019 @01:09AM
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Great, then serve AMP pages to people in Brazil. I don’t see why I can’t permanently opt-out of AMP considering I’ll alway be browsing on either wifi connected to gbit fiber or a high speed 4G connection.
Better yet, make AMP opt-in.
It’s naive to think AMP has anything to do with improving the UX, it makes it worse in every way.
Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everyt...
by grenadier21 on Sunday January 13, 2019 @01:09AM
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Like parent said, if a page takes 8s to load, I sure as heck don't mind seeing some partial results so I can start reading in those 8s.
The think is, if you are on a internet connection where you have frequent loading time of 3s for the _basic_ content, then you are used to seeing partial loaded pages and you likely love it if the connection happen to load the content you care about first, potentially leaving the page before it's completely loaded when noticing that it's not what you are looking for.
The choice of 8s looks _a lot_ like they where looking for the highest time they can chooses without making it look obvious deliberately but which is long enough to make many "causal" users stop using the script blocker.
I.e. 10+s would look way to obvious as a intentionally long choice. 9s still looks big as we are used to see 9 as nearly 10 from product prices to some degree (e.g. 9.99€). So the highest number which doesn't look obviously high is the 8. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯