A stunning fact came from a Googler today: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plus.google.com&#x2F;+IlyaGrigorik&#x2F;posts&#x2F;GzjRiVUED1S" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plus.google.com&#x2F;+IlyaGrigorik&#x2F;posts&#x2F;GzjRiVUED1S</a><p>The previous Google+ site took an AVERAGE of 12 seconds to load, and was 22 MB when gzipped. This company, which once wrote a blog called &quot;speed matters&quot;, where they announced they&#x27;d penalize sites for slow loading, had an average page load of 12 seconds on their social network. (For single-threaded browsers like Firefox, it&#x27;d actually freeze up the browser for about ten of those seconds.)<p>I&#x27;m not super fond of the design, but what I am super fond of, is that Google+ no longer crashes my web browser.