It's about time this became a public discussion. Websites have become so horribly bloated, while most discussions seem to revolve around whether ads are acceptable or not.
To be fair, ads are the reason websites are bloated. I don't mind websites loading 50 MB if I'm in awe of the amazing multimedia presentation it's giving me. 50 MB of ads just... isn't.
That's not always true. Check out the new GMail, my new corporate account has no ads but it still weighs in at 25MB (well 28MB now - still asyncing stuff!) for the inbox.
In this case, the largest resources are Javascript and CSS (yes 1.2MB CSS files!). The weird thing is that it appears to be making requests with different cache-busting strings and getting resources that are the same size.
(32MB now, I haven't done anything on it since starting this post)
There's been plenty of public discussion, albeit in the tech community [1]. It's a hard issue to sell to people outside because most people don't care if a website is downloading 1mb or 100mb.
PlutoIsAPlanet|7 years ago
Android P uses 10x as much memory as it did from Gingerbread, I don't feel as if there's 10x as many features.
theandrewbailey|7 years ago
lbriner|7 years ago
In this case, the largest resources are Javascript and CSS (yes 1.2MB CSS files!). The weird thing is that it appears to be making requests with different cache-busting strings and getting resources that are the same size.
(32MB now, I haven't done anything on it since starting this post)
djhworld|7 years ago
[1] http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm