It's so easy to blame everything on Google/Microsoft/$OTHER_BLACK_SHEEP being stupid. I don't know how many websites you've been to, but a large number of them perform hundreds of requests, not just Google. The modern web is full of images, CSS, webfonts, dynamically loaded Javascript, mashups and other things, each which require one or more HTTP requests. Having lots of requests has been the reality for a large part of the web for a number of years now.