What good are all these metrics, and measures, and approaches, and techniques when Google's own websites en masse wouldn't give two craps about them?
Physician, heal thyself.
Physician, heal thyself.
Without question Google makes the slowest and least responsive sites I use. It's like the 600lbs man giving tips for staying in shape and living a healthy lifestyle. When they have a nearly unlimited budget and access to some of the best engineers and infrastructure on the planet, and they can't practice what they preach, it's difficult for me to listen.
Google.com is 34 requests and 2 MB resources. That page contains an image and an input box.
Original web.dev they rolled out was something like 15 megabytes in size (thankfully, they fixed that).
Google domains is 1.3 MB of JS for what is essentially a static site.
Their recent announcement about some advanced video compression they did (I immediately forgot, it was on HN). 55 MB with a 3 second video on it.
Material design. Just the front page is 3 MB of resources. Of them, 1.3 is Javascript. For a static page.
I can agree though that they have very slowly been getting better with some of their public properties. When we start talking about internal/private/customer-oriented pages (GCP console, GMail that immediately come to mind), they are just horrendously awful.