[janfoeh]

I don't think it's quite so dire. Remember that big sites like Facebook at least used to display warnings in the developer console, akin to "DO NOT PASTE THINGS IN HERE YOU RECEIVED FROM STRANGERS"?

There is a sizeable subset of people who are curious and do care, and who would be eager to try that "one weird trick that speeds up <hot web property du jour> 200%" spreading through their Telegram group.

But for the most part, non-technologically inclined people seem to have a Hindu cow-like frustration tolerance when it comes to technology. If Windows takes twelve minutes to boot and your browsers viewport has shrunken to the size of a postage stamp due to toolbars, then that's just the way it is.

I would wager that for them, site Y running half as fast as site X matters a lot less than you think.