My favorite (hah!) site that demonstrates this is Twitter.[1]
While tethering, it often takes upwards of two minutes to load a page. That seems just a little obscene when the entire useful content of the page is 10 lines of text.
(Hmm, maybe if I disable JS it'll fall back to a more sane approach?[2])
[1] Ok, now I feel simultaneously stupid/vindicated, since I posted this before reading the article... :)
I get that Twitter is the bees knees and all, but it's got some pretty serious problems for such a simple service. For example, the last time I tried visiting it, it only showed the top banner and kept redirecting back to itself. And Google, perhaps on the opposite end of the complexity spectrum, loads before I can start typing my query. And when I do, results come straight away -- even on my shitty TalkTalk connection. But perhaps that's not a fair comparison, since this is Google after all.
While tethering, it often takes upwards of two minutes to load a page. That seems just a little obscene when the entire useful content of the page is 10 lines of text.
(Hmm, maybe if I disable JS it'll fall back to a more sane approach?[2])
[1] Ok, now I feel simultaneously stupid/vindicated, since I posted this before reading the article... :)
[2] Just tried this, it falls back to http://twitter.com/?_twitter_noscript=1, which, hilariously, still seems to rely on javascript. Good job!