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0 pointsvezycash7y ago0 comments

There's this article about a Google engineer who reduced the size of the player from over 1MB to less than 100KB. But the data showed that page load times increased to 2 minutes instead of reducing.

They couldn't figure out why. They almost rolled back the change until someone figured out the reason. Millions of users with very slow internet couldn't even open YouTube before the change. Now, they could.

Tesla probably weren't tracking store visits, and test drives in relation to online purchases. And this missing info misled them.

http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

Edit: Changed 20 minutes to 2 minutes. After rereading the article.

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mandeepj7y ago· 2 in thread

Can't find this article. Please share if possible

vezycashOP7y ago

Took over an hour of search (before ur request) - both Google and Bing were useless. Just crossed my mind that I may have upvoted it here on HN and voila!

http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

mandeepj7y ago

Thanks a lot.

Also, thanks for updating your original comment. Your numbers were stuck in my head. After reading the article - I was like - It's not making sense. So, I reread your comment and saw the updated numbers :-)

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