3G twelve years ago was fast. Today if you get a full 3G reception you can barely load Google’s landing page. Why’s that?

Question

I just feel like they renamed 4G into 5G, 3G into 4G and Edge into 3G.
Jokes aside, I know the overall amount of data to load today per website/video/images is way heavier than before, but still. A simple Google search doesn’t require much more to load than 12 years ago.

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Answer 1

Web dev here. Websites need more data and resources to load now than it did back then. We generally optimize for newer devices and networks because it’s easier. I assume this applies to native apps too. With every app update you do, the slower it will run on older devices.