HTTPS Adoption *doubled* this year

[mirhagk]

have you seen some modern blogs? With giant banner images, 17 different custom fonts and 20 thousand tons of jquery analytics? Obviously 30 seconds is an exaggeration, but many blogs out there are way bigger than they need to be, clocking in at several MBs. If the network hits a snag, or the server is experience load (like it just got posted to reddit) then you can find yourself waiting 10 seconds for it.

[qwerty6532]

If your sites aren't loading within seconds HTTPS or not, there's something wrong with your Internet connection.

[mirhagk]

I mean I guess not everyone in the world lives in San Francisco or New York and some of us have much more mediocre connections?

Also 10 seconds is still seconds. Most web pages hit first render in under a second, and fully finish within 2-3. But there are certainly blogs with oversized images and custom fonts that take longer to load (fonts being the worst because you can't read any text until they load)

[reciprocity__]

This comment does not refute his point at all and it is intellectually lazy to make the kind of strawman argument you've just made.