Dave Rahardja on Nostr: I’ve been playing with Network Link Conditioner and I’ve noticed that website ...
I’ve been playing with Network Link Conditioner and I’ve noticed that website load speeds stop improving above around 50 Mbps. At that speed, a page take around 2–3 seconds to load, and that time does not go down significantly as you increase bandwidth.
In other words, it looks to me that the *human-perceptible* difference between 50 Mbps, 100 Mbps, and 500 Mbps is negligible when browsing the web. Looking at my network bandwidth graph, the average download throughput lingers around 50 Mbps no matter how much more bandwidth is available.
I’m sure this has to do with downloading dozens of scripts from disparate domains (analytics cough cough), but it is interesting. I was hoping HTTP/2 would allow more massive parallelization and faster load times, but it looks like a lot of websites *already* use it today.
In other words, it looks to me that the *human-perceptible* difference between 50 Mbps, 100 Mbps, and 500 Mbps is negligible when browsing the web. Looking at my network bandwidth graph, the average download throughput lingers around 50 Mbps no matter how much more bandwidth is available.
I’m sure this has to do with downloading dozens of scripts from disparate domains (analytics cough cough), but it is interesting. I was hoping HTTP/2 would allow more massive parallelization and faster load times, but it looks like a lot of websites *already* use it today.