How Facebook Tweaks News Feed for Users With Slower Connections
With more and more Facebook users accessing the social network from emerging markets and via slower connections, steps have been taken to optimize those users’ News Feed experiences.
With more and more Facebook users accessing the social network from emerging markets and via slower connections, steps have been taken to optimize those users’ News Feed experiences.
Emerging markets product manager Chris Marra and emerging markets engineering manager Alex Sourov discussed those steps in a Newsroom post, and they include:
- Factoring in connection speed when determining the types of News Feed stories users see.
- Prioritizing which stories to load based on users’ connection speeds.
- Showing previously downloaded stories to users with no connection or extremely poor connections.
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