Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds...
by jfrunyon on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @02:27PM
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Meanwhile, most of those ways to hide latency have other issues, like the good old "link I need is below the infinite scroll" or "I just want to go back to a specific time, but I have to scroll through every single thing between then and now instead of just jumping 10 pages at a time". Which we would avoid if instead we tackled the actual problem.
Particularly in Enterprise software, the time to complete a workflow or view specific data matters a lot - the time to load a page is a component of that, but customers will gladly trade latency for a faster e2e experience with less manual error checking.
In consumer the big limiting factor is engagement, a low-latency experience will enhance engagement. However it's possible to hide latency in ways that weren't possible before such as infinite scrolls and early loading of assets. The engagement on the 50th social feed result has less to do with the latency to load the result, and more to do with how engaging the content is.