Load times in this article are attributed to httparchive.org, which gathers data using WebPageTest. [1] By default, WebPageTest emulates a 5Mbps down / 1Mbps up connection speed for all tests, to provide a more stable basis for performance comparisons. httparchive.org's load times therefore aren't affected by improvements in general network speed.
Am I missing something here? httparchive.org is not an appropriate source for the comparison this article makes. A large repository of RUM data would be needed for that comparison.
Counterintuitively, the stability of page load times in httparchive.org suggests that page performance hasn't improved or worsened enough to make much difference on a 5Mbps connection.
Jonathan Leitschuh shared the same complaint in his original writeup of the Zoom Zero Day, but also mentioned CORS-RFC1918 – a proposal to obtain permission from the user before allowing a public website to access a resource that DNS lookup reveals to be hosted on the private or local address space as defined by RFC1918:
Am I missing something here? httparchive.org is not an appropriate source for the comparison this article makes. A large repository of RUM data would be needed for that comparison.
Counterintuitively, the stability of page load times in httparchive.org suggests that page performance hasn't improved or worsened enough to make much difference on a 5Mbps connection.
[1] https://httparchive.org/faq#how-is-the-data-gathered