[12298765]

CPU speeds haven't changed much in 10 years, and to be honest, I would argue that performance has been getting worse and is not a priority for many/most developers.

The client doesn't seem to care, and just sees the 5-20 second webpage load times as totally normal (at my company/industry at least). Our applications are horrifically slow, but we're still the market leaders in our segment

[otabdeveloper1]

> The client doesn't seem to care, and just sees the 5-20 second webpage load times as totally normal

Yes, but will they tolerate 2 minute page load times? 10 minute?

At some point reality kicks in and you start to have to care about the nuts-and-bolts hardware.

[oblio]

Most of the time those things are caused by gross development errors, not by cache hits. Stuff like looping while sending an individual SQL query for each record.