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Ask HN: Where are all of the slow websites people are talking about?

by adroitboss on 6/9/22, 3:48 PM with 13 comments

I think the developer community makes a big deal about websites taking a tenth of a second more. As if it causes some torturous unbearable moment that users have to sit through. See partial hydration and other related topics.

However, I can't even think of any websites that are so slow that this is an issue. Can someone please link below the websites that are causing this great outcry?

  • by PaulHoule on 6/9/22, 4:23 PM

    The worst symptom of "slow" that I see is cumulative layout shift in content sites.

    It might not be entirely accidental. All the time I try to click on a link but at the last minute the layout changes and... ka-ching! I clicked on an ad.

    Maybe this is how Google can make $50B on ads a year without anybody admitting that they've ever clicked on an ad.

  • by groffee on 6/9/22, 3:52 PM

    Throttle your connection and use a machine with low ram, and you'll soon find most websites are unbearably slow.

  • by night-rider on 6/9/22, 4:33 PM

    Every millisecond counts especially in e-commerce. Every millisecond of latency is a potential lost sale

  • by ev1 on 6/9/22, 3:50 PM

    Are you on a new-ish machine?