In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved

Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by stiray on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @12:39AM (#24057281)

I think this is comming from the same direction as desktop computing.

Try to install windows 7 on brand new machine (hopefully you will get the drivers). Regardless of all the new "improvements" in windows 10, it will fly.

What we did to hw performance increase is just staggering. Instead of having software that works much faster, we ate the performance for the sake of cheaper development - filling software with lasignas of huge libraries that in most cases are not needed, employing incompetent developers that know how to code but are clueless about the computer/os/browser they are running their code on, not optimizing anything,...

Suboptimal technologies, suboptimal languages (to make the developers less expensive for the companies), lack of knowlidge. It stacks up, todays webpage is easly a few megabytes, for a kb of text. Due to huge list of third party dependancies that are not really needed, but are there for minor details on web page. It is just crazy and far worse than when server side rendering was "THE thing".

The result is here, not only on web.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by bob1029 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @09:29AM (#24060530)

What specific part of windows 10 actually makes it run like ass? I really don't understand what the situation is. Are users being punished for the sake of being able to hook everything with ad revenue?

I have noticed that on Windows Server 2019 when I remove Windows Defender, explorer.exe seems to get 10x snappier (start menu appears more quickly, etc) but it still feels like something isn't quite right.

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