OwenMar 17
Jonathan Schofield

“If active distraction of readers of your own website was an Olympic Sport, news publications would top the charts every time.”

“To truly wrap your head around the phenomenon of a 49 MB web page, let’s quickly travel back a few decades. With this page load, you would be leaping ahead of the size of Windows 95. The OS that ran the world fits perfectly inside a single modern page load.”

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.

Mar 17 at 5:12pmIvory for iOS
Show threadJonathan SchofieldMar 17

…Shubham Bose:
“As a publisher, you shouldn’t run compute cycles to calculate ad yields before rendering the actual journalism.”

On the above article, a great phrase for a shit practice:

“Z-Index Warfare”