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

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Show threadnrkMar 28, 2024

@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.

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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
@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.
Mar 29, 2024 at 10:21amWeb