LTE was touted as the fastest data connection when it was released in the US back in 2008 (as I recall)…but is now just about useless on some of the same sites in 2024.
Is it that they’re sun setting the technology and there’s not as much bandwidth available? Or, have modern websites bumped up their need for resources that much that LTE is no longer fast enough to power them?
It seems like a simple Google search on LTE is just about unusable. Even Craigslist, which doesn’t seem to have changed much in the past 20 years, barely loads.
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Average web site weight in 2012 was around 200 kilobytes. In 2022 that rose to 2000 kilobytes, so basically 10x increase. Now, if you as a company aim to have your page load in 2 seconds but be fancy looking, you will take into consideration the average internet speed of your users. Since the speed is increasing, it allows you to create heavier pages. Thus, over time, that super fast LTE connection that you had back then needs to be 10 times faster to load the page today.
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