The issue is that if you have to make more requests overall, there is a non-negligible rtt for each of those requests, which on slow connections can add up very fast
The issue is that if you have to make more requests overall, there is a non-negligible rtt for each of those requests, which on slow connections can add up very fast
Try my demo [1] on 3G slow. It works fine.
Turns out brotli compression does wonders.
[1] https://checkboxes.andersmurphy.com
on real 3g, seems to load in about 5s. As good as hackernews imho
Yup for initial load. But the subsequent interactions which each require a network hop and send down the whole page are lightening fast.
Because once that connection is primed you are off to the races.