[clemiclemen]

This reminds me of a similar story with YouTube [1] where improving the page weight decreased the metrics because more people with lower end connections could access the page.

Metrics interpretation is as important as the metrics themselves!

[1]: https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

[jldugger]

That may be exactly the story I was thinking of, or perhaps the original of a story I encountered on a GCP cloud post or something.