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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by WrtCdEvrydy on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:19PM (#24052228)
It's the cascade of doom... we have an internal benchmark without ads, and it's funny to see without ads we load something like 6Mb of JS but if you load the ads, the analytics cascade of hell will load 350Mb of JS to display one picture.
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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by wackget on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @04:07PM (#24053978)
6MB of JS without ads? What are you loading into the browser, an entire operating system?
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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by phendrenad2 on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:42PM (#24055296)
6MB of JS without ads is unfortunately on the small side these days. Worked for a company that had 15MB of JS, after minification and compression (mostly giant JS libraries that we on the dev team used one small feature of).
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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by WrtCdEvrydy on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:32PM (#24055215)
One whole React webapp.... plus pictures. It really isn't "JS" as much as the whole "resources" reported by Chrome.
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