On Sep 01 2015, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> I don't think 28 kB vs 73 kB is a difference that people will notice
>> over the network in *most* situations. Even at just 100 kB/s that's
>> 0.28 vs 0.73 seconds, and only when the page is first loaded.
>
> That's absolutely a critical difference, even on a faster connection.
> Multiple studies have demonstrated that page load time matters for user
> retention. Amazon did a study that showed every ~100ms of page load
> delay lost them 1% in sales. Google found that half a second slower
> load time for results pages drove off 20% of users. Google also
> prioritizes faster sites in search results.
Yes, but neither Amazon nor Google (nor any other Web application for
which this matters) is likely to run javascript from a vanilla Debian
package. This is not about minification in general, but about
minification in Debian packages. I don't care enough to actually make a
statistic, but I would not be surprised if most of the javascript that's
carried in Debian ends up in /usr/share/doc.
(end of thread for me)
Best,
-Nikolaus
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