https://pieroxy.net/blog/tags/madness/ tech, dev, web & other stuff en Pieroxy Thu, 25 Aug 2022 14:06:00 GMT Pieroxy 2022-08-25T14:06:00Z en Pieroxy https://pieroxy.net/blog/tags/madness/ https://pieroxy.net/blog/2017/03/27/1490640960000.html <p>The other day I was waiting on a disqus blog to start up, loading the comments section. I have a 20MB/s ADSL line. I can download at 1.8 Mega Bytes per second without any issue. <p>The browser was spinning for so long that I decided to hit F12 in Firefox and headed for the "Network" tab. I hit F5 at that stage. <p>When everything was finished loading I could read: <pre>340 requests, 7 557,42 KB</pre> <p>Granted, the content was available way before everything was loaded. But still. 7 Megabytes. 340 requests... This is <b>PURE MADNESS!</b> <p>Then again, buzzfeed.com's home page: <pre>223 requests, 9 382,25 KB</pre> <p>Ok, ok, this is buzzfeed. Let's go to the nytimes.com. <pre>283 requests, 8 158,95 KB</pre> <p>The biggest page of the website I'm currently working on shows: <pre>40 requests, 198,45 KB</pre> <p>Out of these, there are 32 images that come out of a DB. And I find that too high and am trying to reduce it. <p>This. Is. Madness... Pure madness. But it seems to be the web today. <p>The good news is, on the performance front it is quite easy to get an edge. There is always an opportunity :-) Web Design bloat bullshit design madness size web Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:56:00 GMT tag:pieroxy.net,2017-03-27:pieroxy.net/1490640960000 2017-03-27T18:56:00Z