I am glad this still exists, it's helped me out a lot while living and working in Africa for the past month. Sometimes I don't have access to a fast connection. That being said, a lot of other Google products are awful across slow links, for no particularly good reason. Google+ doesn't work at all. Even clicking the little bell in the top right of another Google page never loads. I get the feeling Google needs to do more testing of their products over low speed and high latency links.
Very true. I can't understand how bad some of their stuff is over non-super fast links (probably super low latency is my guess). It isn't just very slow links, I have problems with their stuff frequently when no other sites I use have issues (and if the connection is bad enough to cause others problems, Googles site will almost surely not even load - other than search which does load).
I get the feeling they don't bother testing on anything but super low latency, of if they do they don't care about a horrible user experience.
For me the super bad user experiences in this area have been greatly less, for me. Maybe they actually did something to address the problems (they are still far worse than any other sites I used, but still much better than they were for the last couple years).
Just a suggestion: using 'super' as an adjective four times is a bit distracting. But maybe I am the only one who is annoyed be the recent trend of Jobs-ification of noun phrases ;).
I travel to rural areas in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh every month. The connection quality is as poor as its availability is flaky. I find that GMail, Google Drive and the Google search page always load. Business correspondence and collaborative editing have not been problems at all. I have not tried Google+, though. I shall try it the next time.
On the other hand, my biggest problems have been with GitHub. Not once in the last 18 months have the GitHub Web pages loaded. That makes reviewing and merging pull requests very painful. I reported this to GitHub long ago, but have not seen any improvement yet.
Weird. I am in Malawi right and have basically the opposite experience. Google is dog slow, but I can get GitHub just about anywhere. Probably has something to do with where the packets are routed.
