Despite massive technological advances since the days of dial up, we’re still grappling with slow page response, timeouts, and networking delays. So why does the internet still suck in 2016? Web page latency. There are so many apps running in the background today due to ads, cookies, scripts and various personalization features that the simple loading of a page entails many journeys back and forth over the Net before it is fully ready. This can slow traffic to a crawl. Source by mnajder