Scott Davis on web performance
From The Ship of Theseus: Building the 1,000 Year Web by Scott Davis · · Developer Summit
“The average modern web page these days takes 22 seconds to load on a mobile device on a 3G network. When does the average user leave? After 2 seconds. So much of what we have focused on is the developer experience... but if you have websites that are loading in 22 seconds and users that will wait 2, we have some challenges and we need to address those challenges.”
On , Scott Davis, Executive Vice President and Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Western Digital, spoke about web performance during The Ship of Theseus: Building the 1,000 Year Web by Scott Davis on Developer Summit.
About Scott Davis
Scott Davis, Executive Vice President and Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Western Digital, has been active in discussions on personal purpose, digital trust, and marketing strategy. In a November 2025 podcast, Davis spoke about the importance of gratitude, admitting ignorance as a first step in learning, and cultivating friendships through vulnerability and honesty. He described selling his possessions and sailing to the Caribbean as a way to find a new chapter, and said he started the nonprofit Fulcrum to address affordable housing by using novel financing to keep rents 20–25 percent below market. Davis also discussed