I saw this article: “Ludicrously Fast Page Loads - A Guide for Full-Stack Devs” https://lobste.rs/s/mj7w3d and I thought, ‘I wonder what counts as “ludicrously fast”? It turns out the article never actually explains what he means by “ludicrously fast” except that it should be less than 5 or 10 seconds, but it still seemed like a thought-provoking question.
I’d like to get below 10ms, so that even at 100fps it’s never more than a screen refresh away. On this shitty DSL, even pinging other people on the same /24 as me takes 50ms, so basically nothing outside my house is under 10ms. So we have to prefetch.
(The article has good points on how to reduce your page rendering times, but I despair of getting HTML5 and CSS to under 10ms. By contrast, some simpler layout models can get much faster indeed.)
15:15 < xentrac> on most internet connections, that unavoidably involves push, but my internet connection is currently about 2.4 megabits per second, and I can only read about 70 bits per second, so the push selection algorithm could have an 0.003% hit rate (i.e. 0.003% of what it downloads is something I actually choose to look at) and still be useful 15:17 < xentrac> huh, 15:18 -!- akurilin2 [~alex@208.80.70.250] has joined #lobsters 15:20 < xentrac>