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[–] [email protected] 220 points 2 days ago (13 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

Web "Apps" are also quite bad. Lots of and lots of stuff we're downloading and it feels clunky.

Sometimes that's bad coding, poor optimization, third party libraries, or sometimes just including trackers/ads on the page.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I vaguely recall a recent-ish article that an average web page is 30mb. That's right, thirty megabytes.

It's amazing how much faster web browsing becomes when I run PiHole and block most of it.

Suddenly the TV is pretty snappy, and all browsers feel so much smoother.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That’s straight up not true. It’s not even remotely close to that.

https://httparchive.org/reports/page-weight

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And I'm sitting here uneasy thinking how the hell I'm going to compress my map data any further so that my entire web app is no bigger than 2 mb. 😥

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh god, I'm not ready for the trauma and the emotional scars... D:

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