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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by dgb23 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @01:29PM (#37079055)
It doesn't compensate bloat, but it reduces bytes sent over the wire, bytes cached in between and bytes parsed in your browser for _very_ little cost.

You can always open dev tools in your browser and have an interactive, nicely formatted HTML tree there with a ton of inspection and manipulation features.

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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by throwaway290 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @02:45PM (#37080114)
In my experience usually the bigger difference is made by not making it bloated in the first place... As well as progressive enhancement, nonblocking load, serving from a nearby geolocation etc. I see projects minify all the things by default while it should be literally the last measure with least impact on TTI
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