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by chalupa-man 2676 days ago
Is that from scratch? I'm using an i3 on a 1 Mbps satellite connection, and opening up Gmail now (having opened it earlier today), it was 0.27s until DOMContentLoaded and I could interact with it. It continued asynchronously loading stuff in the background but from my POV it loaded in 1/3 of a second, which in Chrome is faster than the app opens on my iPhone 7. I have disabled the Hangouts/Chat feature in settings which apparently makes a big difference.
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mehrdadn 2676 days ago
Okay I can't believe that either! You're really talking about full Gmail loading in 1/3 of a second? That sounds impossible if we're loading the same Gmail...
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chalupa-man 2676 days ago
Yeah, it's pretty crazy that there would be such a huge difference. Turning off Hangouts and using uBlock Origin might make a big difference because that's all I've really done to modify it.
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mehrdadn 2676 days ago
Would you mind measuring how long it takes on a vanilla browser (e.g. guest mode of Chrome) without anything being turned off?
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