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Re:Launch HN: Zaraz (YC W20) – Use third-party tools without... by yoavm on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @03:27PM (#26006175)
I know it's hard to believe, but thankfully there are tools to measure this. Try https://web.dev/measure/ and see for yourself - many popular websites reach interactivity after 10 seconds.

Here are a few examples I recently tried:

https://lighthouse-dot-webdotdevsite.appspot.com//lh/html?ur...

https://lighthouse-dot-webdotdevsite.appspot.com//lh/html?ur...

https://lighthouse-dot-webdotdevsite.appspot.com//lh/html?ur...

Re:Launch HN: Zaraz (YC W20) – Use third-party tools without... by thettiguy on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @10:43PM (#26010371)
They run those tests with like 1Mb/s connection though.
Re:Launch HN: Zaraz (YC W20) – Use third-party tools without... by yoavm on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:10PM (#26010515)
Good point - by default Google Lighthouse is aiming at the 85th percentile of mobile connection speed, meaning you can ignore these metrics because you have a faster connection or device, but they are still true for ~15% of your mobile traffic. That's the reality of simply delaying scripts - you'll want to delay them more to achieve faster loading time, but the more you delay them the more data you lose.