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Re:The 512KB Club by raspyberr on Saturday January 29, 2022 @08:50AM (#30126241)
I do agree with you but I think one of the points being made is that The New York Times is basically a text-only portfolio and sits at 15MB.
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Re:The 512KB Club by lelandfe on Saturday January 29, 2022 @09:14AM (#30126427)
That the majority of that NYT homepage weight is in low-priority video does not lend much credence to it being a text-only site. On an iPhone 12, it's also a 14,000px tall site, chock full of content. The HTML document size alone nearly disqualifies it from being on this list.

It feels rather... pointless? to pick on a news organization's homepage for being bloated, and then gesture at some guy's 9kB portfolio saying "see! this is speed!"

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Re:The 512KB Club by jafitc on Saturday January 29, 2022 @04:07PM (#30130468)
do you really need to load 14,000px worth of content with no interaction? What if I just navigate away to the first article?

The Nytimes website with the exact same look and functionality could be well under 1MB easily.

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Re:The 512KB Club by birksherty on Saturday January 29, 2022 @12:09PM (#30128020)
NYT is bloated for a news site. That is the point. Even with just the news text, it is bloated. If simply the html is that big it is bloated. Period.
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