• Reported by Nate

This MetaFilter post links to a Reuters report that asserts

More than half of all U.S. residential Internet users reached the Web via fast broadband connections in July, outpacing use of slower, dial-up connections for the first time...

Debate at the Mefi post revolves around the effort involved with efficient web page construction - a problem made easier to tackle (in many but not all respects) by semantic X/HTML coding with CSS for presentation.

Besides the more critical benefits of accessibility to the visually impaired, and to handheld devices - isn't a 1/4 second page load time significantly nicer than 1/2 second load time from an experience standpoint? Just say "no" to tag-soup slowdowns.