That's certainly a useful concept, but I don't think it has anything to do with internet speeds here.
The page speeds that either have or have not gotten slower are generally understood to be purely a phenomenon of larger/bloated pages -- not a result of constricted internet "pipes".
If the paradox applied to the internet, then what you'd be seeing is that if pages loaded twice as fast, people would visit twice as many pages. But that's not at all how it works.
> If the paradox applied to the internet, then what you'd be seeing is that if pages loaded twice as fast, people would visit twice as many pages.
It is in fact a similar phenomenon. The cars are the bytes that developers are stuffing into what they build. It's not people visiting twice as many pages, it's developers continuously expanding the size of what they can stuff into sites to fill the capabilities of servers, end user systems and bandwidth today.
Some of it is unnecessary byte expansion because they can get away with it. The Web was very slow when everyone was on a 56k modem as well. The network pipes were smaller, the servers were drastically weaker, the consumer systems were weaker, everything was obnoxiously slow. It sucked to wait five to ten seconds or more to load a very simple website in 1996. It sucked to watch little real media files and wait a long time to load a couple mb file.
Developers are expanding their byte footprint to fill the available limits of patience, and often going over that line, exactly as they always will.
The page speeds that either have or have not gotten slower are generally understood to be purely a phenomenon of larger/bloated pages -- not a result of constricted internet "pipes".
If the paradox applied to the internet, then what you'd be seeing is that if pages loaded twice as fast, people would visit twice as many pages. But that's not at all how it works.