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Comment by mfontani | Hacker News Reader

And... surprise! It's analytics, tracking, and advertisements!

The irony that Google has initiatives like AMP to speed up page loading-- supposedly. Check out the Texas anti-trust filing for other possible reasons for AMP..

Could you please give a TLDR for those who don't have the time to read the anti-trust filing? Thanks!

And bloat. Few years ago a news website was 95% side content, the article in question was basically a tweet long sentence. People want to attract and fill the page with more stuff than "necessary".

Even with bloat you can trim 2-3 seconds off load times by removing trackers. Trackers that do dynamic swaps like CallRail along with LiveChat are the worst offenders.

Improve the web and the world: remove all garbage third party javascript from your site.

Its more the CopyPasta of god knows how many JavaScript frameworks.

It's really not. I ran the website for a large news org. Even without ads third party JS was loading twice as many bytes as our React and first party code. The YouTube embed, alone, was larger than our entire first party JS.

What are you going to do as an engineer? Tell sales that expensive marketing solution they bought isn't going onto the site because it loads too much JS?

There is that as well - you must have much better developers than most sites.

And some times you have to let things fail and then explain why it di and then do it right

I did just that and it's surprisingly heart warming to know my site could run on a calculator if need be.

No JS, no tracking, no nonsense. 100% content.

NoT really blocking JavaScript / CSS, not preloading and stupidly large images.

BTW I do this for a living for some big brands just dropped FCP from 2.6 to 2.4 and CLS .478 to 0.385 with some tweaks to the preload.

That's the most common stuff but it doesn't seem to be the slowest.

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