Old Reddit only 8 points better: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
In fact, old Reddit actually has a worse time-to-interactive score and a lot more DOM elements: 1.6k for new Reddit and 2.3k for old.
In fact, old Reddit actually has a worse time-to-interactive score and a lot more DOM elements: 1.6k for new Reddit and 2.3k for old.
What exactly does time-to-interactive mean?
On my actual mobile (firefox with ublock), new reddit takes about 6-7 seconds to load in the actual content. On clean desktop chrome it takes 2-3 seconds, and on chrome pretending to be a mobile it takes 4 seconds (!). Old reddit takes less than a second.
It seems like the metrics here just have no bearing on reality.
I think old Reddit not being mobile friendly is a big reason why its score is so low
https://web.archive.org/web/20090116041704/http://m.reddit.c...
old Reddit actually has a worse time-to-interactive score
For many/most users, I'm sure Reddit usage is something like 95% reading / 5% "interaction", or perhaps even closer to a 100/0 split.
So "time until I can actually read what I clicked on" is probably the right primary user satisfaction metric...