QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet

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306 points carlos-menezes | 1 comments | 19 Oct 24 21:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.227s | source

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tjoff ◴[20 Oct 24 06:21 UTC] No.41893322[source]▶

Industry will do absolutely anything, except making lightweight sites.

We had instant internet in the late 90s, if you were lucky enough to have a fast connection. The pages were small and there were barely any javascript. You can still find such fast loading lightweight pages today and the experience is almost surreal.

It feels like the page has completely loaded before you even released the mousebutton.

If only the user experience were better it might have been tolerable but we didn't get that either.

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Flex247A ◴[20 Oct 24 11:29 UTC] No.41894650[source]▶

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Example of an almost instant webpage today: https://www.mcmaster.com/

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1. loufe ◴[20 Oct 24 11:36 UTC] No.41894679[source]▶

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And users clearly appreciate it. I was going over some bolt types with a design guy at my workplace yesterday for a project and his first instinct is to pull up the McMaster-Carr site to see what was possible. I don't know if we even order from them, since we pass through purchasing folks, but the site is just brilliantly simple and elegant.

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