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by ne0phyte 3933 days ago
I am not saying there is no need for more complex web sites. Personally I just think it is sad that in 2015 there are lots of sites that won't load anything at all if you disable JS or have a bad connection.

With a 50k connection at home I simply can't accept waiting 3+ seconds until your site loaded its 500kb of JS and 4 different web fonts to finally show something.
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parris 3933 days ago
Sure! Parts of that are indeed ridiculous.

Although I'm pretty sure the download size from a CDN is far less important from a performance standpoint (within reason). More important things include: - Time to first byte from a slow'ish server (.5s to create the HTML and .5s to deliver). - How many separate requests you are making (somewhat going away with http2)

Can we start ranting about the excessive amounts of tracking pixels everywhere now :)?

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