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Re:Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web by AndrewStephens on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @12:31PM (#19911002)
You are not wrong - in reality we have had a tiered internet for years now, where big sites pay for faster transfers over better routes.

However nothing says you actually have to use these fancy services. Everyone wants a quick loading site but the drawback of an extra 100ms are minimal. Almost everyone should be more concerned with good site design and minimizing client-side dependencies if they want good performance.

Re:Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web by WhiteOwlLion on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @01:06PM (#19911303)
Why would you say extra 100ms is a minimal drawback? Google obsesses over load time because faster load time means more ad dollars generated.

700ms vs 800ms is the difference between acceptable and a slow loading web site.

Re:Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web by vbezhenar on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:05PM (#19912083)
https://www.google.com/ has 2.76s load time for me. Gmail 6.33s. Amazon 1.41s. Aliexpress 2.69s. Seems like entire Internet is slow?
Re:Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web by skybrian on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:02PM (#19912045)
It matters for websites, but only after fixing many other problems with performance and usability.

For an individual user, it doesn't matter to me if I use a website a bit less because it's a little slower. That might even be an improvement, since I was probably using the Internet too much anyway.

Re:Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web by zzzcpan on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:23PM (#19912296)
> It matters for websites, but only after fixing many other problems with performance and usability.

Or does it? Once you fix major performance, usability problems and it starts to feel fast - other efforts become kind of pointless and may even become sources of performance, usability problems themselves.

Re:Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web by save_ferris on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @12:42PM (#19911108)
It's important to remember that with the death of net neutrality in the US, this may not be the case forever.