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The 49MB Web Page
2026-03-15 13:31 UTC
Replies (17)
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@bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2026-03-15 14:41
Unless the user is actively navigating, the header is dead weight. The header should hide on scrollDown and reveal on scrollUp. Let the content breathe. This one I actually hate. Often I just want to scroll up a few pixels, either to satisfy a mild compulsion or to align the content so I can see most of it. This is completely ruined if the navbar pops back in. Leave it at the top of the page, where it belongs, not at the top of the viewport!
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@vext01@feddit.uk 2026-03-15 15:52
Let’s go back to gopher? Read the guardian over the gopher protocol at my gopher hole: gopher://theunixzoo.co.uk/the-guardian
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@DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-15 17:06
Obligatory: perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com
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@stoy@lemmy.zip 2026-03-15 13:47
I have said it before, and I'll say it again. An adblocker is part on my security suite on my computer. Ads can be hijacked to spread malware, and unless the site owner agrees to take both financial and legal liability for the possible dammage caused by their website I will never consider removing my adblocker. If they agreed to take on the responsibility, I still wouldn't remove my adblocker, but I would consider it.
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@adespoton@lemmy.ca 2026-03-15 13:51
I have to admit, I hadn’t realized it had got this bad. How did this get normalized? I browse with most scripts disabled, and have since JS was first introduced to the browser. What I’ve observed is that some pages contain NO actual content, or just the first paragraph, when I load them. I read what’s provided and move on. If the site is hostile to me reading their content they worked so hard to get in front of me, I’m not going to do any extra work to find out what it is.
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@WesternInfidels@feddit.online 2026-03-15 18:48
If this trend annoys you, check out [A List Of Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites](https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/).
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@gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2026-03-15 14:13
Meanwhile people out here hosting websites on [disposable vapes](https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/).
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@plz1@lemmy.world 2026-03-15 18:32
On the topic of load time, it didn't even mention the compulsory "prove you are human" Cloudflare gate on practically every website these days. Add 10 seconds to every visit.
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@datendefekt@feddit.org 2026-03-16 06:42
If you miss how the web was before everything became Plattform, this might be a good place to drop kagis small web initiative: https://kagi.com/smallweb
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@chunes@lemmy.world 2026-03-16 02:00
Pretty ironic this blog runs multiple scripts that get blocked by ublock origin
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@MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 2026-03-17 08:02
"Why do people not read articles anymore and just go by what the headline says?" The articles people are supposed to read:
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@scarabic@lemmy.world 2026-03-15 19:09
That was a great read. I have worked at companies that lived on display ads and it’s a terrible, desperate business to be in. Personally I think branded display ads have always had zero value (or even negative value) and the better the net has gotten at tracking their value, the more this has come to light, the less advertisers are willing to pay, and therefore the more fuckery publishers engage in to try to survive. It’s extremely hard or impossible to deliver a good user experience under this set of incentives. Thinking back to the print news era, a lot of the ads were local, which made them much more valuable. But now the net has snuffed out local retail too, so that model isn’t even there to fall back on if we tried. I’m grateful now to be working somewhere that doesn’t survive on display ads, and that may be one of the big reasons I’ve stuck with this employer for almost a decade now.
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@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-15 16:06
See also [The Website Obesity Crisis.](https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm) > Here’s an article on GigaOm from 2012 titled "The Growing Epidemic of Page Bloat". It warns that the average web page is over a megabyte in size. > > The article itself is 1.8 megabytes long. > The problem with picking any particular size as a threshold is that it encourages us to define deviancy down. Today’s egregiously bloated site becomes tomorrow’s typical page, and next year’s elegantly slim design. The author links their tweet saying "your website should not exceed in file size the major works of Russian literature." At the time, that page on Twitter was 900 KB. Today it is 11 MB. The reason is right there in the slides: 
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@OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 2026-03-17 09:51
I purchased Ad Guard for my Android phone seven or eight years ago and it's a game changer. I despise ads and it's jarring to use someone else's phone.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-03-15 16:36
Btw, anyone has a example of a tracking canvas in html? Wouldn't it falsify the results, if you resize it via a userstyle?
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@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-15 16:17
> Fix it by giving zero pop-ups before 60 seconds of dwell time or 50% scroll depth. No, never do pop-ups. Choosing when to abuse people with shit that should've died in the nineties is not any kind of "fix." Modal dialogs are a design failure. There's a reason every modern browser has a 'stop this page from generating more notifications' feature, when pages abuse alert().
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-03-15 17:04
Funny enough, most JS-only sites (those who are empty with JS disabled) display fine on Dillo.