Is the web getting slower?
What is going on here? Why have none of the commenters read the article? Perhaps because it's phrased as a question and people didn't realize it's a link?Anyways, this matches my expectations--people tend to be overly negative and only remember the good part. The mobile web as a whole has gotten faster due to network speeds+cpu improvements.It is worth noting that pages are doing more after loading now than they used to be though. This won't show up in onload or first meaningful paint, etc. So the first paint is fast, but then if you try to scroll immediately afterwards you'll probably hit some jankyness while the rest of the page loads asynchronously (but only kind of asynchronously since there's a single main thread).Some other things that could cause the regression are that more people own a budget Android phone now than before. People may not realize how slow these phones are. The single core performance of the top budget phone, the Samsung A50, is comparable to an iPhone 6 which came out in 2015.