lostmy.name load times

front-end load times on mobile

After releasing Mermaid, the page load times for lostmy.name grew to a pretty huge sixteen seconds on a fast 3G connection. This is not okay—this website will track the page load times on a fast 3G connection (both from the cache and not from the cache) daily so that we have a motivation to improve it, and so that it doesn't happen again.

Page load time directly affects conversion. [0]

We're also going to track the time until the above-the-fold (lol) content is all visible and usable. This is pretty subjective: the developer tools can't track this, so it's pretty much just me testing with a stopwatch.

All tests are ran on production with the network throttling set to "Good 3G (1 Mbps 40ms RTT)" in the Chrome development tools. The above-the-fold test is ran on the iPhone 6 emulator in the Chrome development tools.

Our target load time on a fast 3G connection without any cached content is 7 seconds.

Load times, uncached and cached

Time until displayed