This is especially relevant given previous statements by Amazon that every 100ms delay resulted in a 1% profit drop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=273900

I'm pretty sure Amazon mostly cares about above the fold latency, because that's what most effects how you experience the page.

On my laptop, it's only about 4 seconds before all the above the fold content renders.

I didn't believe it at first... Waaaow. On my side its 159 requests. Still a frickin huge number.

It's not like it's the only site that increases complexity with time. Is this really the future of the web? I was under the impression it will get lighter as it develops but no, everyone thinks it's better to stuff as much as they can into their web page. Sad.

I can't get to the redesigned page, but the old design is 240 requests, and that doesn't stop it from loading the home page in a couple seconds at most. Most of the requests must be non-blocking, non-essential to above-the-fold rendering.