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Comment by andy_adams | Hacker News Reader

As a user who occasionally uses rural (slow) internet, I wish more developers would just redirect to a new page for editing.

It often takes longer for the initial JS-heavy page to load than it would for me to click & load 2 simple HTML pages. It's so bad that I just skip using certain websites when I'm on the slow internet.

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Feel you. I live in an area with not even very slow internet, just not full 4G speed, but the experience of navigating heavy-js websites is... extremly bad. Like often I try for 5 seconds and then just quit the tab - bad.

I feel like a lot of devs do not even try testing their websites / progressive webapps in slow speed situations or on low end devices. If they tried they would understand why here if you want people to try your service you must build an app, put it in the store and keep network messages at minimum. Webapps are a good way to get a "Not interested, thanks anyway"

Been a little while since I looked into this, but some devs do test for slow connection usability. The problem is that browser tools for simulating a slow connection don't drop and delay packets semi randomly like radio tech will. They just limit your max speeds.

Iptables can be used to make a radio imitation.

Try Network link conditioner, built-in part of macOS and iOS. It includes options to set bandwidth, packet loss % and latency in each direction.

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