The 49 MB Web Page, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

#performance #ux #embedcode

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

Third Parties | 2025 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive

Third Parties chapter of the 2025 Web Almanac covering data of what third parties are used on the web and an analysis of inclusion chains of third parties.

Chrome DevTools Features I Use All the Time (and Why You Should Too), by @keerthanak17.bsky.social (@perfplanet.bsky.social):

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/chrome-devtools-all-the-time/

#devtools #chrome #google #browsers #performance #accessibility #lighthouse #network #embedcode

Chrome DevTools Features I Use All the Time (and Why You Should Too)

Most developers open Chrome DevTools, check a couple of network requests, maybe refresh the page once or twice — and that's it. I used to do the same. Over time, DevTools became something else entirely for me. Not just a debugging tool, but a way to understand how the browser actually experiences

Web Performance Calendar
Third Parties and Single Points of Failure

You've heard it many times - third party content can easily cause an otherwise well performing website to become sluggish and slow. And depending on how this content is loaded, it can also introduce single points of failure (SPOFs). When a large cloud provider or content delivery network (CDN) exper

Web Performance Calendar

Partytown: Optimize Third Party Scripts With Web Workers, by @jacobandrewsky.bsky.social (@debugbear.com):

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/partytown-web-workers

#libraries #embedcode #webworkers #performance #optimization

Partytown: Optimize Third Party Scripts with Web Workers | DebugBear

Third-party resources often weigh down websites and can be tricky to fine-tune for performance. Learn how to use web workers and Partytown to improve your page speed.

The 4 Pillars of Good Embed Code · Jens Oliver Meiert

Embed code is third-party code to be integrated on websites and apps, like ads or social media widgets. There have been many problems with embed code for a very long time. This post covers the essence of what makes for good embed code.

Thanks to all contributors!

More data would be even better, but it seems there *is* a marked difference between web dev behavior in and outside of the EU.

Personally, I like the awareness the GDPR brought, not to load anything and everything from other servers. So convenient—but also so irresponsible.

Beyond privacy, I recall how at Google, third-party embedding was always prohibited—for security reasons. It’s interesting this still isn’t a more popular concern.

#embedcode #privacy #security

Do you embed resources (scripts, fonts, multimedia) from third parties and their servers? (CDNs that you use—upload to—excluded.)

Please respond depending on where you’re based (or, if you largely develop for an organization, where that org is based).

♽ Reshare appreciated to get a better picture. Cheers!

#embedcode #thirdparty #privacy

Based in EU 🇪🇺: yes
13.1%
Based in EU 🇪🇺: no, self-hosting
55.8%
Not based in EU: yes
9.7%
Not based in EU: no, self-hosting
21.4%
Poll ended at .

Is there a reason why Mastodon's embed code doesn't include the text of the post? Compared to Twitter's embed code, which does?

I wonder if this is a privacy issue, so that when a post is deleted, it's also removed everywhere.

#mastodon #embed #EmbedCode

@mguhlin so i understand this if files need to be stored... that approach does not scale, is not sustainable... but what about supporting #EmbedCode?? Doesn't that solve the problem?