Website speed matters.
Especially since connection speeds vary depending on how people are viewing your site. Mobile phone browsing is usually a lot slower than using a desk based computer.
And Google takes account of speed as one of its ranking factors.
Sure, website pages are bigger than they were when the internet started to get going and near enough everyone was using dial up modems to browse the web. Then image and page sizes were even more important.
But it’s easy to get blasé and think that website load speeds don’t matter any more.
They definitely do!