> And don't forget about the studies out there that show a relationship between load time and revenue in e-commerce: "A 100ms decrease in checkout page load speed amounted to a 1.55% increase in session-based conversion."
This is true, although I believe this relationship doesn't hold when you're moving from 200ms to 100ms, it's more for when you're moving from 1000ms to 900ms.
I also have huge issues with a lot of those studies; 100ms from 200ms -> 100ms is immensely different than 1500ms -> 1400ms.
The speed of light is quite impactful when you're looking at different countries or continents.
Starlink: hold my beer.
I'm not a HFT, I know I can't increase the speed of light, I know I can't tunnel through the earth to shave a few microseconds off a transmission. I can appreciate the difference between 300ms rtt and 900ms rtt - the later being a practical minimum when you're coping with outages in the 100-200ms range and networks reroute.
Give me jitter over drops any day.