Re: Question about computer and internet speed

Posted by Chris Jones on March 15, 2014 at 16:47:18 from (24.148.141.137):

In Reply to: Question about computer and internet speed posted by CatShipper on March 15, 2014 at 16:13:57:

I agree that the internet seems to be slowing down over time. However, I highly doubt the speed it is capable of sending to you is slower. What's happening is the sites you visit are getting more and more complicated, loading more and more stuff now to bring you the same info. It's things like sites adding more ad links and interactive content. Once upon a time you got an ad--the same one everyone got. That was easy display ad as part of the page. Now when you load a site it has to check the cookie it left on your PC and get the info on your past visits then from a database pull ads targeted to you. You probably still ignore them but they're trying to get you. Instead of showing you and ad for Birds and Blooms magazine they show you one for Vintage Iron--that kind of stuff. And lets not forget the "analytics" that they are loading or processing each time a page is requested or a button clicked. They are tracking everything. It's not like they are spying on you but they are keeping track of everything. They want some day to make use of all this data by saying we see a higher correlation between people who click this button vs those who chose this menu item when it comes to buying these items. And this extra "stuff" happening not creates more traffic on the internet but makes their servers work harder to provide the information to you--slower response time. Again once upon a time you requested to view product X and the server sent the page with product X specs and some generic ads or links. Now you request to view product X. The server asks your computer to send the info in the cookies stored on it. It does. The server now examines the data checking databases and building a page just for you that shows product X's specs along with other suggested purchases/ads/deals even irritating little videos on the side that you hover over to hear all packaged together and sent to you.

And lets not forget that if your taking updates for Windows, IE, Firefox, Java, media players etc that they aren't making those programs faster they are adding code to them. Code to close loopholes that may be exploited. None the less with each update those programs have more code they have to run in order to do their jobs--hence a gradual slowing of their performance. Of course they figure you also update your PC every year or so--thus with a faster PC running the now blotted larger programs the end result will be suitable performance.

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