We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
It's in the domain name: catchjs. The reason that the web is slow now is javascript. That is, treating a webpage like an application instead of a document. This analysis just assumes all websites are JS-application monsters and only differentiates between them. It misses the point.<p>What makes it even slower is the practice of serially chain loading JS from multiple domains. Once you're 3 deep in that it doesn't matter how 'fast' your webserver is or how fast and clean your JS code is, the serial loading will slow things to a crawl.