Real world connectivity: Beyond the bubble
summary
Global connectivity stats land hard: 43% of humans online, 57% offline and India added ~100 million new users in 2016. Real-world speeds and costs matter — global average is 7 Mbps, 60% of mobile connections are 2G, and prepaid data can cost hours of work for 500 MB in some countries. Tooling and tests matter: emulate a MotoG4 with 5x CPU slowdown, run Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, measure decompressed JS (~3–4 MB from ~410 KB gzipped), and target time-to-interactive under five seconds.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:53Ben Schwartz
- 9:30Lte Speeds in Singapore
- 9:50German Internet Plans
- 10:16Global Average
- 16:20Runtime
- 18:28Script Time
- 22:22Examples of some Good Metrics
- 24:21Google Canary
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