The 49 MB Web Page, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
The 49 MB Web Page, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
Third Parties, by @httparchive.org:
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

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
Third Parties and Single Points of Failure, by @paulcalvano (@perfplanet.bsky.social):
https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/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
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
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.
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!
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.