It rather has slowed down with some websites, or those websites did not exist back then, because they would not have been possible.
Just today morning, when I opened my browser profile with Atlassian tabs (Atlassian needs to be contained in its own profile), there were perhaps 7 or 8 tabs, which were loaded, because they are pinned. It took approximately 15-20s of this Core i7 7th Gen, under 100% CPU usage of all cores at the same time to render all of those tabs. Such a thing used to be unthinkable. Only in current times we put up with such state of affairs.
As a result I had Bitbucket show me a repository page, Jira showing me a task list, and a couple of wiki pages, which render something alike markdown. Wow, what an utter waste of computing time and energy for such simple outcome. In my own wiki, which covers more or less the same amount of actually used features, that stuff would have been rendered within 1-2s and with no real CPU usage at all.
Perhaps this is an outcome of pushing more and more functionality into frontend client-side JS, instead of rendering templates on the server-side. As a business customer, why would I be entitled to any computation time on their servers and a good user experience?
Just today morning, when I opened my browser profile with Atlassian tabs (Atlassian needs to be contained in its own profile), there were perhaps 7 or 8 tabs, which were loaded, because they are pinned. It took approximately 15-20s of this Core i7 7th Gen, under 100% CPU usage of all cores at the same time to render all of those tabs. Such a thing used to be unthinkable. Only in current times we put up with such state of affairs.
As a result I had Bitbucket show me a repository page, Jira showing me a task list, and a couple of wiki pages, which render something alike markdown. Wow, what an utter waste of computing time and energy for such simple outcome. In my own wiki, which covers more or less the same amount of actually used features, that stuff would have been rendered within 1-2s and with no real CPU usage at all.
Perhaps this is an outcome of pushing more and more functionality into frontend client-side JS, instead of rendering templates on the server-side. As a business customer, why would I be entitled to any computation time on their servers and a good user experience?