[taf2]

I see there is a lot of JavaScript but are you certain that is JavaScript with the sole purpose of tracking or application code? I’m not gonna say these sites could not be implemented better but the claim was these are all tracking pixels. Is that true?

[runako]

You're parsing this too narrowly. I'm not making a claim about the purpose of each request. I'm looking at the totality and saying that maybe making 200 requests to display 200 words of content is overkill.

The larger claim was that the pages are loaded with junk that affects the performance of the pages. The signal:noise ratio on modern sites is broken, and optimizing the junk can only accomplish so much. Developers need to advise stakeholders of the downside costs, performance among them, of loading sites with bloat.

Here's an article I read a while back on the impact of specifically Javascript:

https://medium.com/@addyosmani/the-cost-of-javascript-in-201...

[taf2]

I agree but if you look at the parent response claimed 40+ tracking scripts, I just don’t see 40 tracking scripts I see a website using probably too many scripts to implement functionality but I can’t claim to know they can do it with less scripts - I can only assume and that is what the website posted in the original document talks about how to optimize... hence async and trackers not blocking comment was correct