Page load times, indexed for available bandwidth, appear to follow a sort of inverse Moore's law. We could call it Gerdes's random stab in the dark.
My first home internet connection ran at 9600 bps except when it clocked itself down to rather slower. At work at the time I had a synchronous pair of modems running at less than that for an IBM System/36 site to site link. Later on oooh V.FAST - 56Kbps except it wasn't really. More like 48Kbps plus a bit on a good day and a decent marketing department.
I am now using a 1Gbps connection.
My PC on the end of the 9600 bps system was a 80486 based beast running at 25Mhz. It cost me £1600 (thanks Granddad for the unexpected bequethement that was a major factor in getting me where I am today)
I now use a 8 core + H/T Corei7 beastie running at 1.8GHz laptop - its getting on a bit now but it can still churn out packets at quite a rate and crunch my CAD efforts.
Page sizes back in the day were rather small, say 10Kb. Nowadays 10Mb is pretty common (dodgy assertion with no proof)
Web pages do different things than they used to as well.
I don't think it is quite as simple as you suggest, wrt page load speeds. What page, on what, with what and why!
My first home internet connection ran at 9600 bps except when it clocked itself down to rather slower. At work at the time I had a synchronous pair of modems running at less than that for an IBM System/36 site to site link. Later on oooh V.FAST - 56Kbps except it wasn't really. More like 48Kbps plus a bit on a good day and a decent marketing department.
I am now using a 1Gbps connection.
My PC on the end of the 9600 bps system was a 80486 based beast running at 25Mhz. It cost me £1600 (thanks Granddad for the unexpected bequethement that was a major factor in getting me where I am today)
I now use a 8 core + H/T Corei7 beastie running at 1.8GHz laptop - its getting on a bit now but it can still churn out packets at quite a rate and crunch my CAD efforts.
Page sizes back in the day were rather small, say 10Kb. Nowadays 10Mb is pretty common (dodgy assertion with no proof)
Web pages do different things than they used to as well.
I don't think it is quite as simple as you suggest, wrt page load speeds. What page, on what, with what and why!