It’s not that surprising that a massive page would have to compromise quality for scalability (to decrease server load and storage) compared to a smaller page with less visitors.
Most of the perceptual latency on YouTube derives from the massive front-end application, not inherent latency in the backend offering adaptive quality codecs for each video.
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It’s not that surprising that a massive page would have to compromise quality for scalability (to decrease server load and storage) compared to a smaller page with less visitors.
Most of the perceptual latency on YouTube derives from the massive front-end application, not inherent latency in the backend offering adaptive quality codecs for each video.