Chinese internet is still in the 90s

It is weird and inconsistent and I don't entirely put the blame on Chinese internet. I had the same experience but it seemed to me that problem more so was really badly written apps and services rather than the internet itself. Instead of just taking a little longer to load when loading is slow, apps will simply time out and make you try to load again. So rinse and repeat and nothing ever loads. Additionally apps and mini-apps (i.e. within WeChat/Alipay) seem to completely reload every time you open them rather than caching assets or anything.

So yeah, the experience absolutely sucks, but the problem doesn't seem to be the internet service itself.

I found the same thing when i visited, every single site (chinese or external) was very slow. Every aspect of internet use was much slower. Not something I expected from a country with such advanced technological infrastructure

On https://www.speedtest.net/global-index China ranks very highly, very close to here in Denmark.

But https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/internet-... shows it as much slower.

My guess is some sites are allowed without restriction, and others go through filters.

Does https://www.gov.cn/ load quickly? It is very fast from here.

I believe it also depends on whether you're using residential broadband or mobile data. Mobile data could be significantly smoother (at least it was when I was there years ago).

Obviously I'm using a proxy to get on this website. But even without proxies it's still so slow.

why they can fluently use tiktok?

It shouldn't be the case. Maybe ask around and see what's wrong.

are you connecting over a vpn?