It's 2012, HTML5 is awesome, and I'm surfing a PDF
This isn't a problem with HTML 5, it's a problem with the Camper site itself.<p>The Chrome developer tools show <i>202</i> HTTP requests, including tons of tiny images, and many non-minified JavaScript files. And there's only about 500k of data, so it's not really a bandwidth problem unless you're on an EDGE connection or something horrible like that.<p>The big bottlenecks here are round-trip latency and the maximum number of parallel requests made by the browser—if a round trip ping takes 250ms, and you can make 6 requests at a time, then it will take you a minimum of 8.4 seconds to load the page, no matter how big your pipe.<p>For the sake of comparison, the main Hacker News page takes 6 HTTP requests to load. A Google search results page takes 22.<p>Camper could fix their site by tiling all their little PNGs into a couple of large PNGs, and merging all their JS into a single file. If they got their file count under 25, they'd load quite quickly.