Gerry McGovernMar 17

The 49MB Web Page

I remember a time when a 4 MB webpage was considered grossly excessive. How that 4 MB page could be designed as a 100 KB page with a bit of care and attention. But practically everything digital today is excessive, bloated and wasteful. What a digital culture of waste we have; massively accelerated by AI.

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

Show threadCarsten Windler
@gerrymcgovern you can fight it back a little by using browser like Brave, that block a lot of that digital waste ads and protect your privacy
Mar 17 at 12:12pmWeb