Re:Is the web getting slower?
by cblconfederate on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:51PM
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this is not about tracking though. Even with an ad blocker, just about every website and blog now presents multiple spinning boxes when its loading. This is unnecessary , timewasting, environmentally unfriendly programming. And yes , 100% of the time it s devs that choose to build a site this way.
It's come to the point where i feel bad for using plain old single-request-loading html, because it doesn't look 'spinny' enough, and users may think it's uncool.
If business wants something quick and the cost of the website being slow doesn't matter... Why bother?
On the other side, I've been building websites that gets +95 on mobile on Google page speed. If no image above the fold... It gets 100. In mobile, yes. And I still have analytics, YouTube and images...
So I'd say depends by what business needs.
> just about every website and blog now presents multiple spinning boxes when its loading
The vast majority of "page" content is baked into prerendered HTML and CSS rendered. I'm not sure what spinners you're talking about unless you're referring to web apps with timelines/news feeds that dynamically load.
Users love sites that load the important content and are interactive ASAP. Trust me, they appreciate your boring (fast) HTML.
As a recent front end dev, I fought tooth and nail not to include all kinds of tracking drek into the company's site. I lost every time because management overruled me.
At some point, it occurred to me that it's not my site and I shouldn't be taking personally that which doesn't belong to me.