Dial up had an excuse, it was legitimately slow. A theoretical maximum of 56,000 bits per second, and you never really got that, that theoretical maximum involved on the fly compression and stuff like that. You were lucky to get 32k.
Now that we’re measuring connections in gigabits and can stream 4k video, a website that loads slowly is just badly designed.
Dial up had an excuse, it was legitimately slow. A theoretical maximum of 56,000 bits per second, and you never really got that, that theoretical maximum involved on the fly compression and stuff like that. You were lucky to get 32k.
Now that we’re measuring connections in gigabits and can stream 4k video, a website that loads slowly is just badly designed.