zachfeldmanFeb 21
benjojo

You think web page size bloat is bad on some things? oh boy.

Good afternoon to everyone, except bumn.go.id (an Indonesian government website) for having a (at least) 3GB web page because of embedded MP4's with uncompressed audio and video seeming straight from the camera...

This must cost so much for them, like a single page load could cost at least $0.15 in cloud egress fees alone

Feb 20 at 3:36pmWeb
Show threadHypermart CEO is always watching youFeb 20
@benjojo WHAT THE FUCK
Show threadHypermart CEO is always watching youFeb 20
@benjojo also WELCOME TO INDONESIAAAA 

GLAD YOU UNDERSTAND HOW ABSURD THIS ISSS   
Show threadpoes 🇵🇸Feb 20
@yonle @benjojo antek - antek aseng!!!!
Show threadganboldFeb 20
@[email protected] absolute wni
Show threadGraham Sutherland / PolynomialFeb 20
@benjojo lmao, whaaat
Show threadAndrew ZonenbergFeb 20

@gsuberland @benjojo That makes the photo on https://www.cs.rpi.edu/~chrisc/ look entirely reasonable in size by comparison (it's just a <img> tag resized, check out how big the raw photo is)

Me and my classmates used to joke how you could tell he was the HPC prof and probably on like a 10G pipe because he never noticed the load time

Christopher D. Carothers

Show threadlambda fairyFeb 22
@azonenberg he's future proofing! those 2000 dpi screens are just around the corner 🐱
Show threadmx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)Feb 20
@benjojo our high school web design class taught people to put 4MB MP3 files as background music on their page, and to make every link a Flash button.
Show threadLaurent BercotFeb 20
@atax1a @benjojo "Everyone is twelve", but with web design
Show threadRusty ShacklefordFeb 20

@benjojo @SnoopJ

Me: wants background music, embeds base64 mp3 directly into my rant.li (writefreely) page

Show threadsoloFeb 20
@benjojo and here I am trying to get my page under 512kb (which, mind you, is only my target because of additional fonts. if I wasn't counting fonts, it would be 256kb. and if I replaced my profile picture with a vector image, which I also plan to do, it will be ~128kb)
Show threadWilburFeb 20
@solonovamax my target, which includes custom fonts, fontawesome, and quite a few images, is 1MB. At the moment it's 754kB size (675kB transferred) which I'm happy with
Show threadsoloFeb 20

@wilbur I'm removing fontawesome from my site because it is absolutely HUGE for the extremely minor benefit it provides

it's just so much easier to use an svg

for images, if you're not already, make sure yo have webp, avif, and jxl <source> tags as well are using srcset to let the browser choose the image with the ideal size.
those two things have dropped my final bundle size quite significantly

Show threadWilburFeb 20
@solonovamax at the moment my images are either webp or avif depending on what i could get smaller, i'll add jxl once ff or chromium adds support for it because i like the format
Show threadRTG-powered VelFeb 22
@solonovamax @benjojo i generally target <50 kB for my personal site. so far it's 9.7 kB transferred, and i think that i actually missed some opportunities to reduce the size a bit at some point
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ Feb 20
@benjojo Wow, that more or less beats Wired having autoplaying videos in their articles (although I'm not sure if there was an end to the playlist they used).

https://queer.hacktivis.me/notice/AG8clhwQSC9kK0wwpE
Queer Hacktivism

Show threaddivVerentFeb 20
@[email protected] Just think of all the <strong> tags they could have put in those 3GB...

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Strong-Web-Design
Strong Web Design

North Korea is a strange place. From what I've read, it's as close to Hell on Earth as any other place, and their sole economic output appears to be YouTube videos featuring their Mass Games. Oh, and don't even get me started on that whole Dear Leader thing. But no matter, North Korea is pretty full of itself and, as Rick O'Shay noticed, their website coding is no different: it's really, really strong. See for yourself on the Official webpage of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (yes, it's a .com):

The Daily WTF
Show threadThe TurtleFeb 20
@benjojo
Show threadForstFeb 20
@benjojo For those curious, Sony XAVC 1080p59.94 at 50 Mbps and 48 kHz 16-bit stereo PCM.
Show threadLinkyKatsumiVTFeb 21
@benjojo Of course. Indonesian doesn't really know how to make proper websites
Show threadjulia  (перейшла до @[email protected])Feb 21
@benjojo

> 3GB

w... why...
Show threadBeny PetirMar 4
@benjojo @benjojo Maybe you don't know that the leader of the Indonesian government website project or its IT Manager is someone who doesn't have an IT background or even worse, they don't understand what an optimal website is, even WhatsApp is confused about how to differentiate between hoaxes and real ones.