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Modern Web Bloat Means Some Pages Load 21MB of Data
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Modern Web Bloat Means Some Pages Load 21MB of Data - Slashdot

Christopher Harper reports via Tom's Hardware: Earlier this month, Danluu.com released an exhaustive 23-page analysis/op-ed/manifesto on the current status of unoptimized web pages and web app performance, finding that just loading a web page can ev…
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dugite-code
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Even without ads or trackers there are plenty of web applications that sit at over 20MB. Take the #selfhosted application Nextcloud for example, without caching it would be impossible to reasonably use. And this is after they did a lot of optimizations recently.
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IzzyOnDroid ✅
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@dugite_code Who can (or does) still write web pages? Most cobble them together using huge frameworks, which contributes to that. Then the fact that quite often not even images are optimized (and yes, I see that in toots, too)… So 2 full-size photos on the page, and there you are already.
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Jawaka
Jawaka
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30 years ago we’d tweak .jpgs to save as little as 1kb. Dialup was good for discipline.
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IzzyOnDroid ✅
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@Jawaka Oh yes. I was there. My pages were popular back then especially by dial-up folks as I kept them trim: focus on information, pics just were needed and then optimized to the last byte. And using frames, so you didn't have to load the same (static) content over and again…
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IzzyOnDroid ✅
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@Jawaka Thanks for the "sound", that sounds much more friendly than the "ugly facts" 🤪 I still remember my first (2400 Baud) modem and those BBSes. And the "nohup ftp" sessions I started in the university's PC room on Friday hoping to pick up the files on Monday 🙈
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Jawaka
Jawaka
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I remember the sound of a modem firing up and the dopamine hit when it connected.
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IzzyOnDroid ✅
IzzyOnDroid ✅
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@Jawaka That, too! Feedle, feedle, feedle, crrrk-crrrk *TOK* "I'm in!"

Oh, and I still laugh about that sysop finding out his Ara caused his high phone bills as that bird managed 2400 baud connects (though failing the v42bis): pick the key for the speaker, performing a MFV to dial the number, then feeping the connect… Never found out whether that story was invented or real 🤣

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