Brian Hicks, June 16, 2025I keep hearing claims like this:Not everyone in the US has access to stable, reliable internet, even in 2025.Web developers should stop assuming people have fast internet connections and slim their payloads accordingly.This seems intuitively true to me—programmers are gonna have better connectivity because that takes money, and programmers are well-paid. But what's the actual scope of the problem?I dug around, and here's some data. My goal here is not to beat anyone ove...