Is the web getting slower?

Re:Is the web getting slower? by aaaxyz on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @07:12PM (#24414737)

Trying to open new.reddit.com on my ~4 year old phone is slow enough that I have time to get a coffee before the annoying Install Our App popup appears. Imgur is even worse; it takes multiple seconds to load a webpage whose only purpose is to display a single jpg image.

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Re:Is the web getting slower? by randomdata on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:03AM (#24417310)

Surprisingly, new.reddit.com on my 4 year old phone took about the same amount of time as my few month old computer to load. They are both unusable.

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Re:Is the web getting slower? by asddubs on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:50AM (#24417648)

yeah, I've navigated there several times by accident on my phone while out and about. I never got past the loading screen. at least now you can just go to old.reddit.com and don't have to request the desktop site every time

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Re:Is the web getting slower? by d3nj4l on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @08:42AM (#24420347)

New reddit vs Old reddit would be an interesting experiment. What if reddit asked you which version you want on your first load? How many people would go for new?

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