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Alex Russell Jul 8, 2023

It is *intense* just how badly the JS/React brainworms have infected the frontend community.

Every single NYT story page has *both* a 437KiB (1.5MiB unzipped) *and* a 474KiB (1.7MiB) JS file, to display ~50K of text. It isn't ad bloat. It isn't tracking. It's this sort of bunk:

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Aaron Gustafson

@slightlyoff Back in like 2016, I remember running a single newspaper article (not NYTimes) through @tkadlec’s fabulous What Does My Site Cost? and that one page cost more to download than the full print edition cost for the day it published.