Smaller pages are typically slower to load though Flywheel however large pages actually load faster.
I was assuming that in this post-Web 2.0 internet, most webpages were heavy (like >1MB), but if I read Figure 3 from the paper correctly, I see that actually about 90% of webpages are <= 500kb.
Hm, considering metered data for many (most?) mobile plans, it makes sense to save data for the user, but my initial assumption was that this would make things faster for most people turns out wrong, as demonstrated by the median (not average!) load time increasing by 6%, as you point out.
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I was assuming that in this post-Web 2.0 internet, most webpages were heavy (like >1MB), but if I read Figure 3 from the paper correctly, I see that actually about 90% of webpages are <= 500kb.
Hm, considering metered data for many (most?) mobile plans, it makes sense to save data for the user, but my initial assumption was that this would make things faster for most people turns out wrong, as demonstrated by the median (not average!) load time increasing by 6%, as you point out.
Median is a type of average, and in this case is by far the most important one.