There's a cutoff built into browsers in the form of a KeepAliveTimeout. A longer load time could have a valid reason, that's not for search engines to decide.

Also your example of a year is obtuse. It's like saying you should drive BMW because you will get killed in a Tesla if you crash at a million mph.

What Google's page speed factor does is differentiate between 1.5 and 2.5 seconds loading time. That has nothing to do with the quality of a page.

What's up with all the angry comments here? The article is about the influence of social media. People here take it as an assault on Trump supporters. Relax.

That's not propaganda. I thought HN would know better.

Here is where it gets fun. You ask any libertarian on reddit and they'll tell you how it is against them. You ask any LGBT and they'll have the same answer. You ask any anarchist and they'll tell you that no, reddit does not love them. You ask t_d and they'll give you examples. You ask MRA, feminists, SJW, anyone and they'll have examples of the reddit hive being against them.

That's what you get when you have multiple echo chambers cohabiting under the same domain. The only things you can go by is which subreddits are removed or not by the admins. Which is an exercise left to the reader.

In what way is it not propaganda? It's exaggerated for their own benefit to further their agenda, which is to promote their reddit alternative.

I expected better from HN. Don't know why really.

I remember this being discussed a decade ago. The irony was that in most cases it was abandoned because migrating cost more than the annual IT budget. And since no politician ever plans a decade ahead, here we are.

Still, there are successful migrations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

All good things come to an end:

"February 2017 - Politicians discuss proposals to replace the Linux-based OS used across the council with a Windows 10-based client.[42]"

Hopefully, it's far from the end. The fight continues [unfortunately only in German]:

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Muenchner-IT-Leiter-...

In short, there are no technical problems whatsoever. It's just a strong lobbying...

Cannes isn't forcing anyone to do anything. Relax. There is still an audience for theatre releases so Cannes will be fine and so will Netflix.

Politicians are our representatives, not corporations. If you want to shame people for not doing the right thing you would need to become a priest.

It's not about shaming corporations. It's about telling people which companies to boycott.

I'm trying to come up with a situation where loading a 199kb css file would make a difference. Maybe websites that target an audience that is expected to have a slow connection (banks etc.) but this kind of rules them out by not supporting IE.

Have you used a mobile connection in the subway lately? That's a key use-case, I think.

Mobile is especially important for page load.

He didn't say what they did was simple. He said it's a simple explanation for what they did. Google created a great search engine at the right place and time. Since then Google's products have been a hit but mostly a miss by a company with endless money.

Having many misses is just a result of trying many times. Hell, we're in the forum of the epitome of the idea that having many misses and a few hits can be a tremendously successful strategy.

The line should always be moving. Either up or down, hopefully mostly up, but moving nonetheless. It is perfectly fine for the line to go down, failing is learning. But if the line continues to go down, you're not learning, you're just failing. Fix that. Same as when the line continues to go up. If it goes up with no dips down, you're not learning either. Fix that.

The line should never be level. This is the worst position to be in. It means you're not doing anything at all.