[pizza234]

One can easily test this. This is the performance of two semi-randomly picked websites:

- Peter Ferrie's homepage (http://pferrie.epizy.com/?i=1), old school: approx. 900ms

- Netflix landing page (https://www.netflix.com/de-en), modern: approx. 1.8s

Measured via Firefox "load time". Peter Ferrie is a famous security researcher.

The Netlix page is clearly 2x as slow, but the load time is far from proportional to the overall data transfer.

The HN front page, right now, takes approx. 1.7s. :)

[christophilus]

Netflix is a bad example of modern websites, as they’ve hired really good developers to optimize the snot out of it.

I’d say, compare it to Reddit or Pinterest or something like that.