I thought this would be about content restrictions that prevent international users from seeing the same stuff as US users.
Most of his arguments seem to apply to access from the US just as they apply to international access. He describes his experiences with slow network access in various countries, but slow mobile internet access exists in the US (and other developed countries) as well -- either because you're so rural that you're lucky to get even 2G data, or because you're so urban that the 3G bandwidth is clogged. Granted, slow access is probably more widespread in non-US, developing or underdeveloped countries.
Either way, yes, obviously you should try to minimize your site's download size, and a full-featured but minimalistic version of a site is a very good thing to have.
The only thing that seems to me to apply only to international access is the advice to make your site available through an international CDN.
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I thought this would be about content restrictions that prevent international users from seeing the same stuff as US users.
Most of his arguments seem to apply to access from the US just as they apply to international access. He describes his experiences with slow network access in various countries, but slow mobile internet access exists in the US (and other developed countries) as well -- either because you're so rural that you're lucky to get even 2G data, or because you're so urban that the 3G bandwidth is clogged. Granted, slow access is probably more widespread in non-US, developing or underdeveloped countries.
Either way, yes, obviously you should try to minimize your site's download size, and a full-featured but minimalistic version of a site is a very good thing to have.
The only thing that seems to me to apply only to international access is the advice to make your site available through an international CDN.