"Better" is subjective a lot of the time, but load times are not. Modern web is so. slow.
It's like watching that Sloth in Zootopia sometimes browsing the modern web.
It's like watching that Sloth in Zootopia sometimes browsing the modern web.
And the absolute STATE of web development is just atrocious. I maintain a number of sites for smaller businesses local to me, and all of my sites are absolutely lightning fast compared to everything I have to use on the day-to-day. Like I'm sorry the fact that our confluence pages at work genuinely take upwards of 15 seconds to complete load/DOM jumbling/and be ready to use should be a fucking five star embarrassment to everyone who works there. It's fucking TEXT you guys. Rich text, and pictures, and occasionally files, but none of this shit is hard and the fact that your pipelines crash out on it so often and make this take numerous seconds to render is absolutely ridiculous.
And then there's stuff like Smartsheet where it feels like half the time the pages just DON'T LOAD. AT ALL.
I'm ashamed to admit I became so used to our molasses web, that when one website loads instantly, my first thought is "This website must be very old and unmaintained". Having reached this stage, I've brought dishonor to my entire bloodline.
A warrior when subjected to so many sub-par weapons himself becomes dulled and broken. This is not dishonor at all; it is the greatest battle of wills one can engage in: to remember that websites, like all software, can indeed be great. They can be fast, reliable, made well and maintainable, and in fact should be all of these things, no matter how much dull-witted managers may be upset at the cost.
(I tried my best to channel Kratos for that one and I think I was decently successful)