Google just continues to want to show the world that when it comes to the Internet, “We run this bitch!” In a blog post on the Chromium blog Monday they posted that they are looking at ways to warn users about your slow website. Not a site containing malware or any other security risk, it’s just not as fast as Google would like it.
From the article:
We are building out speed badging in close collaboration with other teams exploring labelling the quality of experiences at Google. We believe this will ensure that if you are optimizing your site to be fast, your site will not be inconsistently badged from one surface to another.
In the future, Chrome may identify sites that typically load fast or slow for users with clear badging. This may take a number of forms and we plan to experiment with different options, to determine which provides the most value to our users.
So if you have not checked your website’s speed do it now.
The idea is good but it is not clear on how many seconds of load time is bad in the eyes of Google?
Also DOM load time and site fully loaded time a bit different.
That “pagespeed insights” page gives a lot of info, giving times for “First Contentful Paint”, “First Meaningful Paint”, “Time to Interactive” etc.
For my site, some of the recommendations were:
– “Third party code blocked the main thread for 570 ms”, the worst one being:
“Google/Doubleclick Ads”, 505 ms
– “Eliminate render blocking resources”, the worst one was:
jQuery 1.11, loaded from Google’s CDN …
?!
Google is a dangerous, behemoth bully.
The Internet Dictator has spoken, again. Do this, do that or else!
Tried the test and it refers to:
https://developers.google.com/speed/?hl=en-US&utm_source=PSI&utm_medium=incoming-link&utm_campaign=PSI
Which says:
“Leverage Google’s infrastructure”
And that makes Patrick’s comments even more humorous.
Someone might need to direct Google to the show “The Men Who Made America,”
especially the segment referring to John D Rockefeller? Sure they will get richer, but they
will be in 30 or more pieces. No company on this planet should have the power that
they have over so many people, especially domainers! What if one day they decide
you don’t need a web address to display on the Internet, just a google link?
Which begs the question of why monopolies are no longer being questioned in the US these days.
https://shareverything.com/2015/05/03/competition-is-a-sin-john-d-rockefeller/
“Competition is a sin.”
– John D. Rockefeller
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/single-firm-conduct/monopolization-defined
We see the same thing regarding ISP’s where most markets have just two serious service providers. They need each other to create the appearance of competition when there is none as they work together to push others out of the market.
I wonder if this is all just a precursor to Google offering faster high-speed Internet services to users. My broadband connection through Comcast runs at 230 Mbps, so 99.625% of websites I visit seem fast. On the other hand, when using dial-up connections during the 80s and 90s, BBS’s and the Internet as a whole were a LOT slower. Where was Google then to warn users, then! 😉