This blog page, ostensibly just text and images, made 30 requests for javascript files, and several more to analytics. In all, it made 62 requests over 50 seconds, transferring 1.9Mb - for less than a thousand words of content. Why?
It is a full fledged web app because it is a web app for managing thousands of different blogs and doing dozens of little random features, each of which has their own little bit of JS.
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For comparison:
3.5k word article on Wordpress with comments and analytics, scripting enabled: https://i.imgur.com/nTlMxwL.png
TFA, 900 words, scripting enabled: https://i.imgur.com/wWRMPts.png
Welcome to 2020. A lot has changed. People still use phones to access Internet but not exactly the same way (you may want to get updated on this in the closest Apple store. No, not a store with apples either). Oh, and please, were a mask.
The page loaded instantaneously on my 1Gbps link. My phone on 4G loaded it fine too.
It is also very much possible that Internet Explorer 3 is not supported either.
Yes, this is a rant in reply to yours because some people have better things to do than to analyze DevTools outputs to say the 12654 bytes were loaded instead of 12341 over 50 calls instead of 27.
I am personally very, very found of the philosophy of https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and truly believe that this is how web sites with information should look like. But the ones that are readable on my devices are great too. And I do not give a shit about the volume because I do not have to.
And yes, this is horribly annoying to those who have 120x50 displays over a 6kbps link with 1 MB of capping.
Like I said - I like minimal web sites but the ones that works are fine as well. This one works, I would have never wondered about the weight without your comment.
If a site starts to load slowly or is not readable, I will just skip it.
Many blogs don’t exist as a way to produce an income and absolutely don’t have enough traffic to do so.