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by alcio 2826 days ago
> Recently our industry’s lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence started really getting to me, to the point of me getting depressed by my own career and the IT in general.

Loading this website resulted in 5.3MB being downloaded over 42 requests.

3 comments

I don't think he authored that though.

He didn't say he didn't use software; he wishes they were lighter.

I have only 2.8MB on my computer with the adblocker (the website has Google Analytics and a Twitter widget), mostly images. Fonts/Text/CSS: 120KB. And the website works perfectly without Javascript.
I block everything but HTML by default. One request, 10.49 KB transferred.
With images, it's 14 requests, 24 KB, a little over a second. (I block JS.)
+1 much of the weight/bloat of web pages are: javascript code, massive amounts of media, ADVERTISEMENTS!!!!, etc.

The base html is fairly lightweight. ;)