Wow, that Netflix documentary is reallllly helping grow interest in F1! Enjoyed the long scroll down to see Haas as the winner. I assume the article controls for the physical location of the request (i.e. is Haas fastest because the author is in the US and Haas is the only US-based team and/or hosted site?), but I didn't see it in my perusal.
I'd love to hear from those of you who do web work for these types of big companies. Do they just not care about performance or are there other issues at play? I've dabbled with some small sites and would get stressed if the page load was more than a couple of seconds. How can these companies with large budgets find it acceptable that page loads can take tens of seconds while jumping content around the page or locking up threads with massive JS?
It makes me kinda sad how the article talks about a five second loading time as something that's "relatively good". I guess between cheaply made, slow sites and huge sites like reddit not giving two fucks about performance the goalposts have shifted dramatically toward the bad.<p>Personally for simple content-based sites I find anything above ~half a second is already quite bad, assuming a reasonable underlying connection to the server (ping < 30 ms).
As a long time F1 fan, I love the premise of this article. Perhaps we should also investigate the correlation between team marketing budgets vs web site speed, as that seems to be a major talking point about their R&D budgets vs track speed these days...
When I started out I used to contact companies and try to sell them a site upgrade, generally focusing on something that was better looking. I wonder if now the better opportunity is to demonstrate how much more efficiently you can code their site to increase performance. Reinforcing that with data on how this affects sales and surely you could snatch quite a few contracts.
Testing F1 race team websites for speed is a neat idea.<p>I'm a cofounder of PacketStream.io<p>We'd love to see you re-run these tests from our network of global residential proxies to see results from different locations around the globe. Our product lets you select a geolocation to exit from as part of the request.<p>If you're interested in free credits to run some more speed tests send me an email: ronald at packetstream io