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I think citing data before the wide spread uptake on mobile is non-representative of the modern use of the web.

But it's probably very reasonable to believe that people's expectations of a faster response time has only risen since 10 years ago.

If I had to make a guess whether the same studies performed 10 years ago were performed today, whether the drop in page views would increase or decrease with slower response time, Id guess that today you'd have even fewer page views than 10 years ago.

I don’t believe it’s reasonable to assume that, having presented an alternative view that I find plausible in other comments in this thread. I hope that people’s expectations have increased, but I don’t believe it’s a reasonable assumption.

We need data.

There is lots of recent data out there. The general trend is that those findings from the mid 2000s hold even more true today. People are much more sensitive to latency, while the problem has gotten harder due to last mile flowing through congested air. https://www.doubleclickbygoogle.com/articles/mobile-speed-ma...

The entire premise of Google AMP and Facebook's Instant Articles is predicated on performance. Speed matters.

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