I appreciated the bullet point fleshing out prioritizing tech accessibility. Techier folks might also like Dan Luu’s various examples in How web bloat impacts users with slow connections, which I remember both for his sharing of Wave ex-CTO Ben Kuhn’s internet connectivity experience in Ethiopia as well as Dan’s own anecdote:
When I was at Google, someone told me a story about a time that “they” completed a big optimization push only to find that measured page load times increased. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. The team’s product went from being unusable for people with slow connections to usable, which caused so many users with slow connections to start using the product that load times actually increased.
I appreciated the bullet point fleshing out prioritizing tech accessibility. Techier folks might also like Dan Luu’s various examples in How web bloat impacts users with slow connections, which I remember both for his sharing of Wave ex-CTO Ben Kuhn’s internet connectivity experience in Ethiopia as well as Dan’s own anecdote: