The website obesity crisis

1. 2016-03-19 at 11:37 AM UTC

   #21
   

   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]

   Actually, it is more like 6 Billion connections per page.

   
   The majority of websites will hold your desired connection hostage, unless you first jump through their hoops. Used to be a day where we were proud of the notion that the Web was a free and open platform for the unaccosted exchange of worldwide information. Now it's just a personal circlejerk for a bunch of cute little useless fucks.
   
2. 2016-03-19 at 8:59 PM UTC

   #22
   

   AngryOnion Big Wig [the nightly self-effacing broadsheet]

   http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
   
   This is a good read and the author effectively eloquates most of the problems I have with modern web development.
   
   TL;DR Third party ad networks, chickenshit minimalism and overbuilding the web have resulted in the average page size growing to a staggering 3MB and it's only getting worse.

   
   WOW 3MB for one page?
   My wife did web site design in the early 90's, she could fit a whole web site on 1.4 MB floppy disk.
   Times sure have changed.