Learn the best practices in web development on a site that makes 408 HTML requests with 43 MB of resources, and has popups.
Chrome inspector says it took my Macbook 1.3 minutes to finish loading.
Chrome inspector says it took my Macbook 1.3 minutes to finish loading.
It says he enjoys 'minimalism'.
I keep seeing this from UX people with these baroque monster websites, is that just a meaningless buzzword now?
Very much, yes. If anything that word is now a warning sign. Thanks mr. minimal nerdy dev for having me download a minimal 9 MB auto playing header video over my mobile plan on your landing page[1].
This[2] is a better example of "minimalism" (I have to wash my mouth now). Notice something? Not a single mention of the word "minimal" in the entire article. Aaand, developer tools says it's 84 KB of data. Compare that to the the 13800 KB of the nerdy.dev landing page. Funny, [2] seems to be 164 times "more minimal" than [1].
[2] https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/low-bandwidth-hosting-...
This is Haunted House design. I enter through fog, things jump out at me, the paths are hidden, and they vanish behind me.
Haha, HHD (Hounted House Design) is now officially a thing.