[thephyber]

You're not thinking about this from a game theory perspective.

Slow down pages -> more users bounce -> fewer ad impressions -> less ad revenue.

[mehrdadn]

> You're not thinking about this from a game theory perspective.

> Slow down pages -> more users bounce -> fewer ad impressions -> less ad revenue.

Game theory is the theory of how agents deal with each other. You left out the most crucial part of agents affecting each other!

[twhb]

Yet, many big, profitable websites take 10-30 seconds to load on even the fastest connections. We can reconcile the theory later, but the fact is, much of today’s internet doesn’t optimize for load time.

[coolspot]

Also possible scenario is

Slow down pages -> more users frustrated with Firefox -> fewer user share -> Mozilla closes and donates all code to Apache Foundation.

[bigbugbag]

That would be great ! Where do I sign for this ? I cannot wait for this to happen.

[zaphirplane]

Or eclipse which gets unloved projects

[nyolfen]

how is this game theory?

[walshemj]

and lower rankings organically and for ppc get a low quality score on your add and it can really hurt your AdWords account