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		dzhiurgis on Aug 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage... So why are we conflating web apps vs web sites exactly?

TheSpiceIsLife on Aug 5, 2020 | [–]

Most people who aren’t involved directly with web development just call everything a ‘web page’, or ‘the web’.

amw-zero on Aug 5, 2020 | [–]

Because that’s what everyone else does when saying that the performance characteristics of the two should be evaluated in the same way, e.g. page load time.

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