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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by FridgeSeal on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:08PM (#24056903)
> no banner, no logo, no favicon...Also, no share button. No top/recommended articles. No view counter.

All of which I can live without.

Still the best way of sharing content on the web is via a url, which is handily provided, so most of these aren't even needed. As for recommended and view counts, these don't inherently add a lot of value to users. If anything, it's a nice change to have a page that doesn't try and infer my desires for once.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by user5994461 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @06:03AM (#24059021)
Should have said stats instead of counter. As the webmaster, you want to know how many visitors there are on which pages?

A simple "last 5 articles" in the corner do add value. Users frequently read more than one article.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by FridgeSeal on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @07:35PM (#24066782)
You can get that from your logs though?
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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by user5994461 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @08:34PM (#24067090)
Usually not, because the hosting doesn't provide access to request logs (consider github pages, heroku, wordpress, LAMP providers).
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