[com2kid]

> Websites are far faster than they've ever been in the past, even with the bloat of frameworks and fonts. Most sites load in < 5s these days. That was not the case 15 years ago.

I had a cable modem 15 years ago. Pages loaded faster, even though I had 1/10th the bandwidth that I do now.

[paulryanrogers]

Could be that web servers don't have much more bandwidth per client. Or that they're actually cold starting VMs or lambda functions instead of running constantly. Still, I agree the overall feel of the web had gotten shower and jankier over time.