Re:A website for debloated open source alternatives
by eterm on Sunday August 23, 2026 @05:02PM
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I about to splutter that 1.9MB is a huge sitemap, but it's 12kB.
Do you mean crawling the entire sitemap and concatenating the results is 1.9MB?
Re:A website for debloated open source alternatives
by Hendrikto on Monday August 24, 2026 @03:49AM
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> retrieving all 200 /p/ URLs over a single TCP connection […] results in a 1.9MB HTML file
That is exactly what he said, yes.
Re:A website for debloated open source alternatives
by inigyou on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:17AM
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But then he compared it to a sitemap that is 2.9MB by itself.
Re:A website for debloated open source alternatives
by varun_ch on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:00PM
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Also, the website seems to be largely ‘vibe coded’, at least given by the written copy and the style. If you ask Claude to use 1990s/2000s web design and HTML it’ll do something like this.
Re:A website for debloated open source alternatives
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Monday August 24, 2026 @09:43AM
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The sitemap "standard" was not introduced until 2005
Would a "1990's style" website offer a sitemap.xml file
Also, this site, like most today, uses "slugs" for its URLs. In the 1990's this was less common; URLs were often "uncool":
https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
NB. I'm not commenting on the website's content or how it was generated/sourced
All the /p/ URLs are in the sitemap, all the site's pages can be retrieved over a single TCP connection
https://debloat.dev/sitemap.xml
This, i.e., retrieving all 200 /p/ URLs over a single TCP connection (using HTTP/1.1 pipelining), results in a 1.9MB HTML file comprising all the /p/ pages, including response headers. NB. This isn't "crawling". All URLs (cf. a set of "seed" URLs) are known before the connection is made
No cookies, no Javascript
Other than CSS, no bloat
NB. A 1.9MB sitemap would not be large. For example, here is a 2.9MB sitemap from AP
https://apnews.com/ap-sitemap-202607.xml