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Metropolitan fibre continues to extend beyond Lagos and Abuja, changing what is realistic to host and serve locally.
Better last-mile connectivity raises the ceiling on what visitors will tolerate — richer media, larger applications and video that previously would have been abandoned mid-load.
Backhaul and international capacity, not the local loop. Serving content from within the country avoids the segment that is still the bottleneck.
Several widely used projects have moved to restrictive licences, and downstream users have had to react.
The long-signalled change has landed unevenly, and its effects reach ordinary websites through analytics and advertising.
Efficiency claims are increasingly being backed by published figures rather than logos.
For the majority of local sites, mobile traffic now dominates by a wide margin.
After several years of adjustment, hybrid arrangements have become the common pattern.
Take-home tasks and portfolio review continue to displace algorithm puzzles at smaller companies.
