Ethan MarcotteMar 28, 2024
You’d think “it’s easier for many phones to render PUBG than modern websites” would be an industry-wide wake-up call, but. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/modern-web-bloat-means-some-entry-level-phones-cant-run-simple-web-pages-and-load-times-are-high-for-pcs-some-sites-run-worse-than-pubg
Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG

Danluu benchmarks numerous websites and discusses their impact on older and/or weaker hardware

Tom's Hardware
Show threadnrk

@beep this thing -> https://upstash.com/ consumes 50mb+ heap size on startup , to display a static landing page.

For youtube, it is consistently 100mb+, for google, it is again 50mb.

Upstash: Serverless Data Platform

Designed for the serverless with per-request pricing and Redis®/Kafka® API.

Upstash: Serverless Data Platform
Mar 28, 2024 at 2:29pmWeb
Show threadIAGMar 29, 2024
@nrk9819 @beep I have a pretty solid phone (2019 flagship iirc) and this page brings it to its knees
And yet I can emulate 3DS games just fine, utter bullshit
Show threadJes - Hedgehog Edition Mar 29, 2024
@iagondiscord @nrk9819 @beep I can play Wii and PS2 games. I can play fortnite AND watch YouTube at the same time on 2 screens
Yet some websites take a while to load.
Show thread<- 100% gay-flavored ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅMar 29, 2024
@nrk9819 fyi, heap size ≠ amount of downloaded data to render the page
Show threadnrkMar 29, 2024
@mystie the argument is neither about data transferred either, it is about "performance" and "resource consumption", as related to the original post. I'm fully aware that heap size has nothing to do with files downloaded to render the page. But the gist of my comment remains the same, rendering a static page shouldn't consume 50mb+ heap memory. In a ideal scenario, a static page should be statically generated, not client rendered.
Show threadsarah tonin Mar 29, 2024
@nrk9819 @beep excuse me, but this isnt a static landing page. it's a slideshow
Show threadnrkMar 29, 2024
@SRAZKVT "static" means consisting of static files that can be pre-generated and served to the client without processing per request. Static in case of websites doesn't mean devoid of interactive/animated components like a slideshow.
Show threadsarah tonin Mar 29, 2024
@nrk9819 no no i was making a joke about that websites performance, which reaches 2spf on my phone
Show threadnrkMar 29, 2024
@SRAZKVT lol 😅🙏