Well, part of the reason. Ultimately it boils down to the usual suspects, money/greed/power, and Google being used like a radio station. If all the content going in was clean, Google’s tools would probably have much less being wrong … I guess at least by filling them with crap, we’ll find out if they can work out the difference or not.

Back in the day, websites weren’t full of all this crap. But most of us were lucky to have double digit kbps on a timed meter so there’s that.