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I can't help but think it's funny that they're using React for a page like this, with scripts like 'wixAppsBuilder.min.js', 'wixAppsClassics.min.js' and 14 requests to frog.wix.com (whatever that is). So apparently they built this (extremely simple!) page with... Wix Website Builder?

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Turn off Javascript and you literally get an empty page.

Impressively shit!

Yeah, Wix has been transitioning all their Angular code to React.

You're blaming superfish for using a website builder for a trivial page rather than actually care about hosting + coding + etc?

What happened to a plain HTTP page? (with all js you want, of course)

HTML page you mean? HTTP is a protocol.

Correct

So?

You'd think that since Superfish was a web malware company, that intercepted web pages and added content to them, they would be competent enough to write a ten-line site without using a heavy, bloated website builder that makes 28 requests, most of them JavaScript. IIRC Wix was, until very recently, a Flash website builder.

Sometimes, just maybe, the priority isn't to build something from scratch (however simple), but rather press a few buttons and move onto something more important.

Web 3.0 is pretty much that. Load 10MB of JavaScript libraries sequentially, then every element on the page needs a new loader, 30 HTTP requests, and a web socket.

And that's after a 10-minute build process using some node-thing, which, just to minimize and spit out static assets, needs to pull in 14,000 files of dependencies.

Is modern web really that bad, and are those the reasons that just visiting some of the popular websites overwhelms my brand new cpu?

Slightly exaggerated, but that sort of thing absolutely happens.

The 14,000 files is an actual measurement of the node_modules folder for the build of a static site I've seen. npm is inane.

Straw man. This is actually an EBKAC. Obviously, because I can do the same asinine thing in any language offering the ability to pull in dependencies.

How else are you going to create the "side effect" of allowing the page owner, the hosting company, several CDNs, 10 social media "partners", an ad-network or three, and google[1] to each log page views?

[1] gotta feed the crack^Wanalytics addiction

I don't think they were the web malware company, that was Komodia, they just partnered with them. Its a subtle, for me, but important difference.

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