Build Websites For Cuba
According to Speedtest analytics, the median internet access speed in Cuba in 2023 was 3.87Mbps for mobile and 1.86Mbps for broadband connection1. The island country holds the record of having the slowest internet in the world.
I created a throttling preset in Chromium’s Inspector to get a feeling of how long it takes to load popular media websites in Cuba. The results:
- apnews.com – 22 sec
- reuters.com – 32 sec
- ft.com – 22 sec
- yahoo.com – 12 sec
- theguardian.com – 12 sec
- miamiherald.com – 35 sec
- cubadebate.cu – 18 sec
My suggestion: when building a website, make sure it loads in less than 10 seconds in Cuba*.2 Give priority to users with the most limited abilities.
Internet para todos!
10 seconds is an average attention span time. ↩︎