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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@beep @flori @petelawler @TonyYarusso @TimWardCam @radpanda @sarajw @max

I dunno what y'all are talking about . For me this article's page downloads 839.11kB initially (of which 51.54kB is images—a lot less than I expected!), rising to 1.06MB in total once I scroll down and let everything lazy-load.

(cough #UBlockOrigin cough)

(cc @koakuma)

Mar 30, 2024 at 1:06pmWeb