i have been thinking for a while that the internet (i know lumping too much together) has seemed to have gotten worse lately. Well, maybe not worse, but definitely slower.
Slower, you say. Maybe you have a slow connection? 65 Mbps doesn't sound that slow to me. Could it be a slow OS? Maybe, Windows 10 does not exactly run fast (and it hangs way more than i would like).
The real problem i see is with websites. They seem to be loading to much crap that i don't want to see. Internet Explorer crashed a bunch most likely due to this. Pages don't need all of the embedded social networking, video ads, etc that are currently plaguing them. i miss the good old days when you were loading the page/story not the excessive ads (and the sloppy scripting).
i don't want a video to load unless i tell it to. The pop-up/pop-under ads are a major annoyance too. No, i don't want to click the stupid "x" to close out an ad that i never wanted to see in the first place in order to load a site (or read it) - also applies to "hover over ads" though they like to load even if i don't hover.
Take the website for Komonews.com...
* Banner
* "Image hover" top 5 or so news stories
* Images: 27+
* Ads: 9 (at least no video)
actually that isn't horrible (not good, but not as bad as some). When you get buffering/streaming videos on page loads really seems to kill the page loading speed.
Now let's try King5.com (a Tegna station, Tegna station websites tend to be annoyingly slow to load)
* Banner (weather alerts, etc)
* Background ad
* Images: 50+ (some thumbnails)
* Ads: 4+
* "slide show images" , also images with hover tags
Video ads seem to be the worst. Some Tegna sites will try to load a video for such things as weather (along with radar, etc). Browsers like Edge and Internet Explorer seem to struggle a little with that.
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